@inbook{72e650789eff4118a6ad056e30487aa1,
title = "Writing O(Ff) Family: Blood is thicker than water! ",
abstract = "This autoethnographic narrative explores temporal, situated interactions between myself as a reunited female adoptee with my birth mother and half-brother. I first met Jean, my birth mother in 2009 when I was 47 years old. Our relationship began optimistically, yet after only three months we experienced our first estrangement. In the eight years that followed, our relationship swung sporadically between times when we participated fully in each other{\textquoteright}s lives to being completely estranged. During these eight years I would meet up with my half-brother, Geoff, only three times. This chapter reflects on one family get-together after years of unplanned silence between my half-brother and I. ",
keywords = "autoethnography, kinship, adoption, Blood, Estrangement",
author = "CHRISTINE LEWIS",
note = "October 6, 2019: Submit new abstracts for inclusion in final proposal to Routledge December 15, 2019: Deadline to submit drafts of manuscripts February 28, 2020: Return feedback/revisions to authors (April 30, 2020) Revised to 1 July 2020: Final drafts of manuscripts due (June 30, 2020): Revised to ? Entire edited collection manuscript finalized ",
year = "2022",
month = may,
day = "10",
language = "English",
isbn = "ISBN 9780367643379",
series = "Writing Lives: Ethnographic and Autoethnographic Narratives",
publisher = "Routledge",
editor = "Lisa Spinazola and Purnell, {David }",
booktitle = "Writing of(f) Family",
address = "United Kingdom",
}