What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed by Lukasik, Gail

What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed

From acclaimed bestselling author of White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing, comes...
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Author: Gail Lukasik
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What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed by Lukasik, Gail

What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed

$74.73

What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed

$74.73
Author: Gail Lukasik
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From acclaimed bestselling author of White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing, comes a brand new collection of stories of people uncovering their past.

What They Never Told Us tells the stories of ordinary people who made extraordinary, life-changing discoveries about their parentage and/or race and ethnicity that fractured their identities. The book asks the big questions: Who are we? And what is family?

Blending social history and personal narratives, each story delves into the devastating psychological trauma of uncovering a hidden family secret with all the twists and turns of a mystery novel from how the discovery was made; to why it was kept secret; to the arduous, sometimes disappointing, quest to find the biological parent or parents. To fully understand the secrecy surrounding these family secrets, the book examines pre-WWII and post-WWII attitudes toward infertility, adoption, donor conception, race and racial passing, and unmarried pregnant women.

Interspersed throughout these harrowing narratives is the author's own confusing and sometimes painful journey to redefine her racial identity under the spotlight of public opinion. Searingly raw and honest, What They Never Told Us tells the stories that were never meant to be heard.

Author: Gail Lukasik
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 11/26/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
ISBN: 9781510780187

About the Author
Gail Lukasik is a freelance writer, editor, college lecturer, and the author of the bestselling book White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing, which the Washington Post named "One of the Most Inspiring Stories of 2017." Gail has appeared on PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, BBC World News, and NBC's Megyn Kelly Today. She is also a contributor at the Washington Post and the author of several mystery novels featuring the character Leigh Girard.

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