Somewhere Bluebirds Fly
An Adoptee’s Search for Home
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What People Are Saying About Somewhere Bluebirds Fly
“Somewhere Bluebirds Fly is a no-holds-barred, well-written account of loss, loneliness and a son’s search for his birth mother. I couldn’t put it down. I found myself cheering for him every step of the way.”
— Mike McCann Author of
Give Me the Hudson or the Yukon
“Somewhere Bluebirds Fly pulls the reader into Farrant's search to unearth where and why his birth mother set him adrift from his biological roots. A small lonely boy inside the award-winning editor/writer cries out for the person who gave him life, gave him away and died before he located her some 60 years later.”
— Martha Jons’, Author of “Across the Footbridge”
“Rick Farrant’s writing is at once touching and gut-ripping. He describes in unadorned prose his life, his childhood, and his longing to understand his origins, his birth mother—all the while not asking for congratulations or pity. He lays bare the hollow world of the sixties suburbs and describes how suffering can happen in small corners, in comfortable households, in smoky bathrooms.”
— Michele Perkins, President of New England College
Books
Somewhere Bluebirds Fly.
Farrant recounts a dysfunctional childhood and a lifelong chaotic struggle for identity punctuated by substance abuse, mental illness and failed relationships, and late-in-life discoveries about his origins that brought both acceptance and rejection. It is a story of perseverance and hope, and it illustrates the realities associated with searching for biological relatives at a time when millions of people worldwide are turning to science to make those connections.
Crossing Over.
This compelling true tale offers a striking look inside a hidden community as a woman comes to terms with her discontent and ultimately leaves her family, faith, and the sheltered world of her childhood. She bravely crosses over to a new and unfamiliar reality in hopes of better understanding her emotional and spiritual desires.
Home Again.
What it means today to make a home in the nineteenth state is examined in this collection of writings. Editors Tom Watson and Jim McGarrah have brought together some of the state’s finest writers, including Rick Farrant, to reflect on such themes as family, security and, as the editors have noted, “quests for a better life, a life rooted in Indiana.”
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