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Belonging: A Daughters Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER[An] outstanding debut.Publishers Weekly (starred review)The awardwinning journalist and cohost of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mothers 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 awardwinning 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 mothera Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelles father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Comptons first Black city councilmanhidden, 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 twentytwo. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, Go and find your mother.Belonging is the chronicle of Michelles decadeslong 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 mixedrace heritage and her place in whitedominated 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 Michelles 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 nations own ongoing and imperfect racial reckoning. What emerges is an intimate family story about secretssecrets we keep, secrets we share, and the secrets that make us who we are.
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