The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Shannon Gibney combines personal recollections with science fiction in a memoir about transracial adoption. Adopted as an infant by a white couple in Ann Arbor and renamed Shannon, she later seeks information about her birth parents. The book recalls her childhood, teen years, and adulthood as the only Black child in her family. Alongside this life, a parallel version imagines Erin, the name given by her birth mother, growing up elsewhere; a wormhole occasionally connects the two timelines.