SuitabookAdoption, origins and belonging
Simone has always known she was adopted but initially does not want to know more; contact from Rivka prompts her to reconsider family and origins.
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Dana Reinhardt - Author
This is a coming-of-age story about an adopted teenager unexpectedly confronting her origins. It combines family questions with school relationships, sexuality, belief, illness and emotionally difficult family circumstances, while presenting Simone’s perspective as humorous, searching and sometimes self-absorbed.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a coming-of-age story about an adopted teenager unexpectedly confronting her origins. It combines family questions with school relationships, sexuality, belief, illness and emotionally difficult family circumstances, while presenting Simone’s perspective as humorous, searching and sometimes self-absorbed.
Simone has always known she was adopted but initially does not want to know more; contact from Rivka prompts her to reconsider family and origins.
Before reading, consider whether discussion of casual sex, virginity, drinking and vomiting, strong language, cancer and emotionally difficult family circumstances fits the reader’s current needs. The treatment is described as realistic, humorous and hopeful, but reactions may differ.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.