Belonging : a daughter's search for identity through loss and love / Michelle Miller with Rosemarie Robotham.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063220430
- ISBN: 0063220431
- Physical Description: x, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | First Word: Where We Awaken. Part One: Mother Figures. Original Sin -- Bigmama's House -- After the Fall -- Xernona and Me -- The Colors of Us -- The Woman in Blue -- Girl on the Bus -- Our Matriarch -- Shape Shifting -- Naming and Claiming -- Part Two: Chasing the Dream. The Mecca -- African Spring -- The Rookie -- Global Citizen -- Orange County News -- My Mother, Reprise -- Part Three: The Way Home. Crashing -- Boy Wonder -- True North -- Love and Politics -- Motherhood -- What Care Forgot -- American History -- The Mouth of Babes -- A Reckoning. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Morial, Michelle Miller, 1967- African American women journalists > Biography. Racially mixed women > Biography. Abandoned children > Biography. Mothers and daughters. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 070.92 M854 2023 (Text) | 33126025328414 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Erlanger Branch | 070.92 M854 2023 (Text) | 33126025328422 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Independence Branch | 070.92 M854 2023 (Text) | 33126025328406 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning co-host of CBS Saturday Morning reflects on her decades-long journey to reconnect with the mother who abandoned her at birth and how her mixed-race heritage informed her own sense of self. 60,000 first printing. Illustrations. - Baker & Taylor
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. - HARPERCOLL
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"[An] outstanding debut."âPublishers Weekly (starred review)
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her motherâs abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades.
Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her motherâa Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelleâs father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Comptonâs first Black city councilmanâhidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, âGo and find your mother.â
Belonging is the chronicle of Michelleâs decades-long quest to connect with the woman who gave her life, to confront her past, and ultimately, to find her voice as a journalist, a wife, and a mother. Michelle traces the years spent trying to make sense of her mixed-race heritage and her place in white-dominated world. From the wealthy white schools where she was bussed to integrate, to the newsrooms filled with white, largely male faces, she revisits the emotional turmoil of her formative years and how the enigma of her mother and her rejection shaped Michelleâs understanding of herself and her own Blackness.
As she charts her personal journey, Michelle looks back on her decades on the ground reporting painful events, from the beating of Rodney King to the death of George Floyd, revealing how her struggle to understand her racial identity coincides with the nationâs own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secretsâsecrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.