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A Random Figurine
Susannah D. McCallum

Xlibris Corporation, 2008 - 160 pages

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Heartfelt!

I absolutely enjoyed this book. It is heartfelt and deeply personal. It takes you on a bittersweet journey where the author really gets down into your emotions. It really makes you feel and the captioned pictures engage the reader. I did not want to put it down!


A Very Human Story

Susannah McCallum's book is a personal journey that starts in WWII London where she barely escapes the Nazi blitz and ends, sixty years later, back in a very different England where she finds her natural mother and a new family. In between there is a childhood in Cuba, leaving for the United States after the Castro revolution and starting life, once again, in a different country and culture. But it is mostly is a story of survival and constant quest for a mother that had to give her away at birth. It is riveting and loving.


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An examined life.

I was engrossed by this very human, powerfully honest memoir. Her relentless search to put together the pieces of the puzzle that would give meaning to her life is a testament to the writer's courage and spirit, and a vivid example of what it means to lead a truly examined life. It is also an exploration of that most complex of human relationships: that between a mother and a daughter. And in her case, having three mothers and having to navigate, however perilously, between two dissimilar cultures makes for especially compelling reading. Anyone in search of meaning in their lives and the truth about themselves will not only relate to, but learn from this inspiring personal account.


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A very unique book.

I was very touched by this book. A unique story of a woman determined to find the truth and her mission in life. It opened my eyes on the feelings, joys, pains, and struggles of a person going through life with three mothers, debating between cultures, and establishing her true identity. I highly recommend it.


From Whence We Came

This easy-to-read book poignantly illustrates the innate need we have to discover the source of our origin. Through sheer persistence and patient detective work the author finds her biological family living on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. In a heart-warming way we see how the author's lifelong yearning for her mother and siblings finally allows her to experience the peace that has eluded her all her life.


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I've written this book for two reasons; first because my story is different and I thought it would be of interest to my readers, and second, as a therapeutic tool for myself, recollecting memories of my past and the significance each event has had for me in coming to terms with my story.

The book's first three chapters describes my relationship with the three women who represented a mother figure to me and my unending need to find my birth mother and my roots.

As I eventually find her, my true sentiments for her are described as well as those for my two also found brothers.

I describe one of my most intense sentiments, how I've always had an urge for my homeland, unable ever to adjust to a different territory, as well as the memories from my early years as I visit my country again and how they impact my inner self.

I bring to light the unfairness to the adopted in not allowing them the right to know who they are, a primary need for most, which is a basic human right and how the truth, even when painful, should always prevail.

I talk about four primary feelings that have been my constant companions and try to understand them.

Later, traveling through different countries a month after finding my roots enabled me to look at my persona not as a different unique one but as just part of all humanity and allowed me to be more understanding as to my place with it's respect.

In the end, more hidden feelings arise and I am able to accept them as such.

It has been therapeutic as well as more self-assuring to my nature as the dark passages in my life and the endurance I developed resolves most of my internal conflicts.

I timidly engaged into writing and without prior expertise have written each word as it flew directly from my heart and although I do accept my imperfections, I am grateful for this experience, a sanctuary for me, a tool and an inspiration for those with similar challenges and an informant for those without them.

Susannah D. McCallum


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