The Adoption Papers
by Jackie KayFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-05-01
Publisher(s): Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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Summary
Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple- from three different viewpoints: the mother, the birth mother, and the daughter.
Table of Contents
| 1961-1962 | |
| The Seed | p. 11 |
| The Original Birth Certificate | p. 12 |
| The Waiting Lists | p. 14 |
| Baby Lazarus | p. 16 |
| The Tweed Hat Dream | p. 19 |
| 1967-1979 | |
| The Telling Part | p. 21 |
| Black Bottom | p. 24 |
| 1980-1990 | |
| Generations | p. 28 |
| The Phone Call | p. 31 |
| The Meeting Dream | p. 32 |
| Severe Gale 8 | p. 36 |
| It used to excite me even | p. 39 |
| My Grandmother's Houses | p. 40 |
| Summer Storm, Capolona | p. 42 |
| Pounding Rain | p. 44 |
| In the Seventh Year | p. 45 |
| Photo in the Locket | p. 46 |
| Dance of the Cherry Blossom | p. 50 |
| He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin | p. 52 |
| Lighthouse Wall | p. 53 |
| Mummy and Donor and Deirdre | p. 54 |
| Close Shave | p. 56 |
| Dressing Up | p. 57 |
| I try my absolute best | p. 58 |
| Death to Poll Tax | p. 60 |
| Whilst Leila Sleeps | p. 61 |
| The Underground Baby Case | p. 62 |
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