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A Story of Family and Belonging
Free Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 6, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 1416593691
EAN: 9781416593690
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What do you wear to meet your father for the first time?
In 2004, Hannah Pool knew more about next season's lipstick
colors than she did about Africa: a beauty editor for The
Guardian newspaper, she juggled lattes and cocktails,
handbags and hangouts through her twenties just like any
other beautiful, independent Londoner. Her white, English
adoptive relatives were beloved to her and were all the
family she needed. Okay, if I treat it as a first date, then I'm on home turf.
What image do I want to put across?...Classic, rather than
trendy, and if my G-string doesn't pop out, I should be
able to carry the whole thing off. Contacted by relatives she didn't know she had, she decided
to visit Eritrea, the war-torn African country of her
birth, and answer for herself the daunting questions every
adopted child asks. Imagine what it's like to never have seen another woman or
man from your own family. To spend your life looking for
clues in the faces of strangers...We all need to know why
we were given up. What Hannah Pool learned on her journey forms a narrative
of insight, wisdom, wit, and warmth beyond all expectations. When I stepped off the plane in Asmara, I had no idea what
lay ahead, or how those events would change me, and if I'd
thought about it too hard I probably wouldn't have gotten
farther than the baggage claim. A story that will "send shivers down [your] spine," (The
Bookseller), My Fathers' Daughter follows Hannah Pool's
brave and heartbreaking return to Africa to meet the family
she lost -- and the father she thought was dead.
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