Many thanks to NetGalley and Books Fluent for gifting me an audiobook of the debut memoir by Julie Ryan McGue, narrated by Kate Hagman - 4 stars!
Julie and her twin, Jenny, have always known they were adopted but it was a closed adoption, so they had no information on their birth parents. Until Julie started going through health crises in middle age, she had never pursued investigating her biological origins. Those health issues spurred her to open difficult discussions with her adoptive parents and begin a years-long search for her birth parents.
This was a wonderful memoir, totally honest and forthcoming with the emotions and feelings of all involved parties. Julie was very diligent and methodical in her searches and it was obviously documented well in order to produce this book. The twins were always so respectful of their parents' feelings even through hurt and rejection. I appreciated her Catholic upbringing and faith and believe that God definitely had a hand in all that transpired - there are no coincidences!
This book had lots of different people and I felt that the narrator did a wonderful job of voicing all these characters. Her pace and tone were perfect.
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