Refuge is the first of two books about my adoption and how it has affected me throughout my life. Before I started the edition, I had never explored my feelings about it in depth or revisited my childhood notions of "home." This book became a way for me to share the idealized world I dreamed up as a child, through the eyes of an adult who knows she can never go there.
"Incomplete and abandoned"
"I never felt at home"
"A foreigner in my surroundings"
"I find myself displaced"
"In silence I retreat"
"In silence I wish for refuge"
