Name: Becoming Danish
SKU: 69221084
Price: 16.21 EUR
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Author: Michele Duvauchelle
ISBN: 9798173818812

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Michele Duvauchelle

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136

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9798173818812

Becoming Danish

Michele Duvauchelle (Author) · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · Physical Book

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Synopsis "Becoming Danish"

What if the answer to where you came from had been living twenty minutes away all along? Michele Duvauchelle always knew she was adopted. At eighteen, she found her birth mother and believed the largest questions of her identity had finally been answered. Decades later, a DNA test overturned everything she thought she knew about her biological father. The results pointed toward Denmark—and toward a man who had never known she existed. What followed was an extraordinary late-in-life discovery: a father, siblings, and a family history rooted on the Baltic island of Bornholm. As Michele pieces together names, photographs, records, and inherited stories, she also looks back at the parents who chose and raised her, the life she built in France and California, and the many places a person can belong. Becoming Danish is a warm, candid memoir about adoption, identity, grief, family, and the courage to follow an unexpected truth. It is a story of what happens when a mystery becomes a relationship—and when finding where you came from changes the meaning of home.