The ginger child : on family, loss and adoption
Flanery, Patrick, 1975-2020
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A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. 'But would you take a ginger child?' a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to others. This uniquely powerful book moves deftly between heartbreaking memoir and illuminating meditation on parenting, adoption and queerness in contemporary culture, stopping along the way to consider recent science fiction film, camp horror television, fiction and visual art.
Main title:
The ginger child : on family, loss and adoption / Patrick Flanery.
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Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2020.London : Atlantic Books, 2020.
Collation:
277 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781786497260 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.734
Language:
English
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BRN:
2278174