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.
