Home School Book Review on “We’re All Not the Same, But We’re Still Family”

Having adopted both of our sons, I found that this book covers the exact questions and issues that were discussed in our pre-adoption training. The story was written for adoptive families to explore the benefits of adoption openness. In her “For Parents and Caregivers Only” at the back of the book, co-author Theresa Harris, a therapist and adoptive mother, warns, “Openness may not always be positive for families.” But when it is a positive experience, it can help to address the important themes of identity, attachment, grief, and loss that adopted children (and their parents) often have to deal with.

Read Wayne Walker’s full review at the Home School Book Review Blog

Soul Clothes

978-1-61599-095-5
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UPC: 978-1-61599-095-5
Brand: Modern History Press
Here's your invitation to join a literary as well as a personal relationship with the deeply insightful and profoundly expressive perspectives of Regina Diane Jemison. As you encounter these soul-stirring pieces, you may imagine listening to one of God's own trombones. The poetry, prose and personality in Soul Clothes, may rub up on a curious and compassionate place within you, a place of stark reality drenched in divine hope. Imagine a John Coltrane solo, with words instead of tenor sax.


Acclaim for Soul Clothes

"Soul Clothes dances naked and unabashed across the page. Jemison's poetry connects spirit to spirit, stripping away masks and guiding us to divine adornments of grace, truth, faith."

--Aundria Sheppard Morgan, author Cross My Heart and Hope to Die


"Soul Clothes is one poet's passionate expression of what it is to be human. Her poems encompass a vast expanse of emotions, from suffering and grief to love and celebration. While being real about the human experiences we all share, many of these poems also exalt the divine within us."

--Valerie Jean, author of Woman Writing a Letter


"Soul Clothes reveals a collection of compelling, compassionate, daring, devoted, honest and unafraid poems with a spiritual undertone."

--Sweta Srivastava Vikram, author of Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors


For more information see www.ReginaJemison.com


From the Reflections of America Series at Modern History Press


Poetry: African-American
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