Synopsis "Unadoptable Joy: A memoir in poetry and prose"
Unadoptable Joy: A memoir in poetry and prose, is an honest, sometimes gut-wrenchingly heartfelt journey. J. L. Wright pens the path of a toddler hiding in the back of a closet, intoxicated by smelly wet black rubber galoshes to a life as a scarred child longing for adoption. As she develops, a lovingly imperfect foster family guides the course of her life. From an abusive home in the Minneapolis projects, Joy was labeled "unadoptable" - doomed to the foster care system. But luck, or something else, landed Joy in a middle-class family that was willing to survive the system with her. In her memoir, Joy shares her early nightmares and the frustrations of living as 'Property of the State, ' while celebrating the Wrights, her foster family.Told largely in poetic verse, Joy's stories continue to surprise with secrets and lessons of acceptance, while the reader must grapple with the many facets of growth, love, learning to trust and what it means to choose the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and to whom we belong.This book captures the disconnect between reality and fantasy, the chasm between questions, answers, and resolution and the ultimate decision to live as their childhood dream family ending dies.
