Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption decolonization written with deep feeling and

written with deep feeling and dark humor

The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country's most distinguished and beloved authors

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Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption decolonization written with deep feeling andIn Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her "real" parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was bornexcept they hadn't, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a