Name: Adoption Memoirs Author Event with Marianne Novy
Start: 2025-09-16T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-16T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Books & Mortar Book Store

Join us at **Books and Mortar** in Grand Rapids for a powerful evening with adoptee author **Marianne Novy**, as she discusses her latest work, ***Adoption Memoirs: Inside Stories*** (Temple University Press, June 2024).

This compelling book explores 45 memoirs by adoptees, birthmothers, and adoptive parents—offering a rare, deeply human look into the complexities of adoption. Whether you’re part of the adoption triad or simply seeking to better understand the lived experiences of others, *Adoption Memoirs* offers honest reflections on identity, loss, resilience, and connection.

*Adoption Memoirs* was honored with a 2025 International Impact Book Award for Biography—Unsung Heroes and Everyday Lives, and Family—Adoption and Foster Care.

**Free and open to the public. Come early as seating may be limited!**

[More information about Adoption Memoirs from the publisher.](https://tupress.temple.edu/books/adoption-memoirs)

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