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My good friend Kate is a transracial adoptee—she’s also a mother, lawyer, writer, and wife—but she devotes a good portion of her time to raising others’ awareness of the issues facing adoptees (she blogs at The Missing Piece). A few years back, Kate introduced me to poet/novelist Jackie Kay (also a transracial adoptee writing about adoption), and so when I saw this video on e-drum, I knew I had to send it to her. Then I watched the video myself and felt I could listen to Jacke Kay reading poetry ALL day…take a look/listen:
Poets make interesting novelists, and I’d recommend Kay’s novel, Trumpet:
Inspired by the life of musician Billy Tipton, the novel tells the story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody whose death revealed that he was, in fact, a woman. Kay develops the narrative through the voices of Moody’s wife, his adopted son and a journalist from a tabloid newspaper.
She’s got a memoir out now, Red Dust Road, about finding her birth parents and I’m going to add that to my TBR list…
It’s kind of a gloomy day here in Brooklyn, and I don’t want to leave the house but need to go to the library and so might as well meander through the garden while I’m out. I’ve got two job interviews this week and need to prepare for those, but don’t really want to see any farther than tonight’s episode of Miss Marple. I just finished Andrea Levy’s The Long Song and will post a review soon, though I was a little disappointed and really want to sink into something deep instead of brushing up on American Lit. Thank God I won’t have to teach Moby Dick…
I actually meant to focus this entire post on Nathalie’s amazing write-up of LGBT Week—stop by Multiculturalism Rocks! to read up on all the great links and activities to celebrate PRIDE…
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