Month: April 2019

Interview on KALW’s Your Call – Bitterroot and a conversation about race, identity and belonging

The one thing that I really enjoy is talking about Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption.  Whether it is at a book festival, in a lecture hall, in a book club or on the radio, I get a little jazzed when I’m asked for an interview.  Especially when the interview questions are as detailed […]

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Most Popular Question – Why did you write Bitterroot?

Book ideas don’t materialize out of nothing.  Built on foundations of experience, or rooted in something larger than a single story, ideas begin as ethereal and boundless shapes.  Over time they take form, eventually becoming distinct and real.  Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption is such a book.  Although shaping the story has its […]

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