Vanessa McGrady is an award-winning journalist, social media strategist and communications professional. She’s also been a playwright, actor, producer and voice-over artist. She can sing “Home on the Range” in Yiddish, which is apropos of nothing.
She is the author of Rock Needs River, a memoir.
[My Book, The Movie: Rock Needs River; The Page 99 Test: Rock Needs River; Writers Read: Vanessa McGrady (March 2019)]
At Shepherd McGrady tagged five favorite books about adoption, including:
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir by Jillian LaurenRead about the other entries on the list.
In this exquisitely written poem of a memoir, Jillian Lauren splays her heart wide open, on every page as she transforms from an addict whose used up most of her luck to a mother whose role requires great stores of grit, determination, and love. We’re right there with her as she and her husband decide to adopt a boy from Ethiopia, and we’re along for the bumpy, often painful, occasionally joyful, ride through the challenges of parenting this tiny person who has already lost so much, but has so much to give. Outside of motherhood, she’s so funny and interesting I kind of want to be best friends with her. Not in a weirdo-stalker way, though.
--Marshal Zeringue
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