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We Always Wondered What Became of You

Jerry Wemple

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Description:In the opening page of this compelling memoir related in (mostly) prose poems, Jerry Wemple announces that “everything is connected, even those who are reading this here and now.” What makes this assertion all the more remarkable is how hard-won that wisdom is, the product of a lifetime spent seeking connection and identity, starting out as “a black-haired, brown-skin boy delivered by a woman with a German name and no explanation at all” surrendered to Saint Joseph’s Foundlings Home and Maternity Hospital (pictured on the book’s cover) in a “foundering hard-coal city” in Pennsylvania. Adopted by his mother’s sister (who keeps that connection a secret), he spends a childhood as a “piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit no matter where it’s tried,” enduring endemic racism, until decades later a DNA match at last leads him to a long-lost aunt whose greeting upon meeting him is the book’s title, and the revelation of his dead father, “a ghost on the internet.” Reflecting on “the things you’ve learned and haven’t, the people who’ve died and took their secrets with them. You could list a lot of things, enough to fill a book.” Wemple has filled a book, with memories and revelations and, in the end, reconciliation with everyone and everything that has gone into making him, the realization that “those frozen moments are luxury.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Always Wondered What Became of You. To get started finding We Always Wondered What Became of You, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 63

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Broadstone Books

Release: 2023

ISBN: 1956782516

Description: In the opening page of this compelling memoir related in (mostly) prose poems, Jerry Wemple announces that “everything is connected, even those who are reading this here and now.” What makes this assertion all the more remarkable is how hard-won that wisdom is, the product of a lifetime spent seeking connection and identity, starting out as “a black-haired, brown-skin boy delivered by a woman with a German name and no explanation at all” surrendered to Saint Joseph’s Foundlings Home and Maternity Hospital (pictured on the book’s cover) in a “foundering hard-coal city” in Pennsylvania. Adopted by his mother’s sister (who keeps that connection a secret), he spends a childhood as a “piece of the puzzle that doesn’t fit no matter where it’s tried,” enduring endemic racism, until decades later a DNA match at last leads him to a long-lost aunt whose greeting upon meeting him is the book’s title, and the revelation of his dead father, “a ghost on the internet.” Reflecting on “the things you’ve learned and haven’t, the people who’ve died and took their secrets with them. You could list a lot of things, enough to fill a book.” Wemple has filled a book, with memories and revelations and, in the end, reconciliation with everyone and everything that has gone into making him, the realization that “those frozen moments are luxury.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Always Wondered What Became of You. To get started finding We Always Wondered What Became of You, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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