My memoir on the U.S. adoption experience is available on Amazon and your favorite online bookseller.
Happy New Year, everyone. I hope all of you had a great holiday and have special memories of times spent with family and friends. For my followers, I want to thank those of you who last year purchased my book, You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are. Your support means a great deal to me.
This also marks the first holiday season where I promoted my book and when I heard back from more of you. In December, some of my readers wrote reviews on Amazon for the paperback version of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are. Here are a few of those comments:
Shawna
Of all the adoption related books I have read, You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are resonates with me the most, on so many levels. It’s a difficult task to make folks understand what discrimination looks like for adoptees in this country.
Lazarus
You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are is an outstanding, heartfelt, and eye-opening memoir of its author, Rudy Owens, as an incredible 30-year journey to his birthright. It is essential, exhaustive, and compelling reading to those of us who have been passed through this exceptionally misguided, agonizing, and flawed system and for all those otherwise.
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Thomas
The subject has always been intriguing to me, but before reading this book I had no idea the depth of issues that could be involved. It successfully tells a very compelling story but also reveals details of the legal roadblocks to adoptees getting the information they are entitled to. Highly recommended.
Please Share Your Reviews:
If you have purchased either an ebook or paperback version of my memoir, my New Year’s video is for you, encouraging you to join Shawna, Lazarus, and Thomas by sharing your thoughts.
A reader’s most trusted source is his and her fellow reader. I hope to see your names in the comments section soon.
For the months ahead, I am still seeking opportunities to speak and do readings and share the information I wove within my own tale with people who know little about the system that still impacts millions of people in the United States. It can be challenging finding partners willing to host an author who wants to talk candidly and honestly about the history of U.S. adoption and adoption secrecy laws. I’ll share news of future events here.
Infant-stranger-adoption should be rare.
The legal priority should be to preserve original biological families.
Your book offers evidence that policymakers should apply adoptee stories when writing laws and public policies.
And the business of selling children through welfare policies, religious organizations, and private adoption agencies should be outlawed.
I AM SO HAPPY you and your biological grandfather had a good relationship.