We’re in Sasquatch Country Now
How the Bigfoot legend helped me reconcile unanswered questions about my adoption
How the Bigfoot legend helped me reconcile unanswered questions about my adoption
I don’t know when I was born. I’ve stopped pretending that I do.
If all adoptees felt not only safe, but empowered in their families and their communities, I would feel better—but not lucky.
Will my intestines turn the sacred bread into holy shit, or does the miracle not extend that far into the digestive process?
I wanted her language, her understanding of Honduras, a family like hers. I wanted things she could never give me.
Adoption didn’t give me a forever mother. Being in reunion with my birth mother did not make me wholly mothered, either.
This folder contained memories I did not have, information about a family I did not know.
Adoption is one of those forks in the road where many of us try to glimpse through the trees to the other path, the other world.
I never would have come to Korean if not for my adoption. The language pulled me back to it, despite the decades, cultures, and continents between us.
“I hated when attention was brought to my adoptee status. I was American, and that was all I wanted to be.”
I worried that my nephew considered it too late for reconnection.
“In moments like this, natural childbirth seems like magic to me.”