Somewhere Out There, There’s More
is a deeply personal and eye-opening memoir about adoption, identity, and the
stories we think we know about ourselves.
For decades, the author believed she understood her
adoption story so well that she wrote her first book, Somewhere
Out There: My Experience of Adoption and My Search for Understanding.
But years later, a shocking discovery revealed that what she had been told—and
what she had believed—was not the whole truth.
Her journey began with a simple and practical need:
medical history. Like many adoptees, she had little to no accurate information
about her origins. What started as a search for health records became an
investigation that exposed the barriers adoptees face when trying to access
their own histories—and the carefully crafted narratives adoption agencies
often provided.
Adopted through the Homestead Maternity Home in Fort
Worth, Texas, the author uncovers how agencies “marketed” children to adoptive
parents, often repeating identical and sometimes misleading birth-parent
profiles. With the help of a professional searcher—and her own persistence—she
follows the trail from Texas to Hawaii to North Dakota, discovering just how
small the world can be, and how complicated the truth often is.
Drawing on her experience as a professional counselor,
the author explores the feelings of abandonment, emptiness, and longing that
many adoptees experience at some point in their lives. She reflects honestly on
reunion, connection, and the realization that finding biological family does
not automatically make someone whole. DNA, she reminds us, does not define
family.
Written with vulnerability, insight, and unexpected
twists, Somewhere Out There, There’s More is for anyone
touched by adoption—adoptees, adoptive parents, birth families, and
professionals—as well as readers who enjoy heartfelt stories of self-discovery.
Ultimately, it is a powerful reminder that self-acceptance is the journey we
all share, and that even when we think the story is complete, there may always
be more.
