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Oct 24, 2012 · An extraordinary, shocking and disturbing true story that left me gasping with outrage at times, Split at the Root is the story about a woman who was removed from her Black birth mother and brought up by a White, German-speaking family in Guatemala, and her subsequent identity crisis in middle-age.
Sep 25, 2012 · Catana Tully's Split at the Root is a tale that traverses a multicultural landscape spanning two continents and over sixty years. It begins with her idyllic upbringing by affluent, sophisticated, and loving German parents who took her as their own child in 1940s Guatemala.
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In this dramatic and beautifully written memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies that she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala who called her their “little Moor.”
Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog. by Catana Tully. In this memoir, the author explores questions of race, adoption, and identity, not as the professor of cultural studies she became, but as the Black child of German settlers in Guatemala.
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