Camelliastorch: An Adoptee's True Story

By Wendy Johnson

Camelliastorch - An Adoptee's True Story - is a chronological review of my personal adoption search. It includes the defining discovery that ended my lifelong identity crisis and the beginning of a new pathway of hope within my life. It also discusses the Adoption "Triad" and it's importance in an adoption search. During the lifelong process of searching I discovered that my grandmother was Claire Phillips a forgotten heroine from WWll in Manila. An entertainer whose performance of a lifetime as the spy, "High Pockets" aided the underground resistance movement in the Philippines and the final chapter of War in the South Pacific. The book takes a deeper look at the lives of adoptees and the emotional impact that adoption has on our world today. Hopefully the book might help other adoptees to decide on their own what is best for them and for myself a reminder of how important knowing ones cultural and biological lineage is in our society. No matter how controversial an adoption search may be, it is an important phenomenon in our world today - that enabled me to consider different aspects of "healing" and the emotional human process of identity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500866180
• ISBN13: 9781500866181
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"