In Junkyard Girl, Carlyn Montes De Oca describes how she needed to rebuild her identity at 57 after learning that she was adopted. Not only did her entire family (over 60 first cousins and many more second cousins, spouses, etc!) know about it, even childhood friends and acquaintances did. The discovery led to meeting her biological sister and mother, all the while grappled with the secret her parents thought important enough to take to their graves.
The memoir is not only an adoption tale, but it tackles the issues of immigration, poverty, class structure as well as the impact of criminalizing abortion. You won’t want to miss this episode.
Esoterica's The Interview: Junkyard Girl