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  1. Jul 2, 2016 · This book is not only a crucial read, it is amazingly well written. Anne Heffron has a beautiful cadence about her writing, it flows wonderfully, reads quickly and is perfectly clean. It is funny and poignant, open and honest. It shows her willingness to be completely vulnerable.

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  2. Jan 23, 2023 · This core energy can take me down. It can make me feel hopeless, helpless, and unlovable. I have to monitor myself and work to have the elements of my life support more than deplete me.

  3. You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron is a memoir about what life is like for an adopted person. Anne argues the fact that adoption for a lot of adoptees is actually a type of trauma. The author felt as though she was always going to be abandoned, in her relationships and even with her own child.

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  4. Jun 12, 2018 · Review: "You Don't Look Adopted" rips away the fairy-tale image of adoption to reveal the painful truths of being adopted. Heffron's book at home. on my desk. Anne Heffron's searing memoir "You Don't Look Adopted" is not a book that I, a woman who relinquished a child, could read at one or two big gulps. Too painful. Way too painful.

  5. Five years after her mother died (before finishing the book that would end up favorably reviewed by The New Yorker and The New York Times), three years after getting divorced (for the second time), a year after getting fired (for throwing a pen and crying) and seven months after her daughter left for college (as a D1 athlete), Anne finally had ...

  6. You Don’t Look Adopted by Anne Heffron is an easy-to-read, heartfelt memoir that resonated with me as an adoptee. Anne is vulnerable and honest about the emotional complexities of being adopted — it was so relatable!

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  7. Oct 19, 2016 · Anne Heffron tells her story in the book, You Don't Look Adopted. Writing can be cathartic and healing for so many people, and Anne's story not only has helped her, but I believe it will...

    • 3 min
    • 978
    • Transfiguring Adoption
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