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Belonging : A Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love by Michelle Miller (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063220431
ISBN-139780063220430
eBay Product ID (ePID)11057233501
Product Key Features
Book TitleBelonging : a Daughter's Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicEditors, Journalists, Publishers, Children's Studies, Personal Memoirs, Journalism, Parenting / Motherhood, Native Americans, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
IllustratorYes
GenreFamily & Relationships, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorMichelle Miller
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews"An affecting narrative that explores race and racism while addressing deeply personal questions." -- Kirkus Reviews "An outstanding debut. . . . Readers will be transfixed by Miller's thought-provoking queries about race and family, and inspired by her candor. The result is an elegantly structured soul-soother." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review), "An affecting narrative that explores race and racism while addressing deeply personal questions." -- Kirkus Reviews
SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother--a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle's father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton's first Black city councilman--hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, "Go and find your mother." Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle's decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle's understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation's own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets--secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[An] outstanding debut."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother--a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle's father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton's first Black city councilman--hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, "Go and find your mother." Belonging is the chronicle of Michelle's decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelle's understanding of herself and her own Blackness. As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nation's own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secrets--secrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.
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- 18 Apr, 2023
Very descritive of Michelle's life!
Very good book!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Jun, 2024
Very good.
Very good.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
