Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

An Adoptee Raised by an Adoptee

May 17, 2022 Louise Browne & Sarah Reinhardt Season 2 Episode 9
Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
An Adoptee Raised by an Adoptee
Show Notes

Beth Figuls is a technical writer and aspiring novelist/memoirist from Los Angeles. A Baby Scoop-era adoptee, she was raised by a father who was also an adoptee, and who had lived in an orphanage for a time when he was very young. She searched for and found her birth mother, as well as siblings from both sides of her birth families. She strongly believes that adoptees have a right to know who they are. She is very interested in exploring intergenerational trauma, loss, and adoptee personhood in her memoir-in-progress.

Also in this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss B.J. Lifton's Journey of the Adopted Self.

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