Roost
Amy Roost grew up wanting to be a documentarian. She got so far as a degree in political journalism before pursuing a career in non-profit management and marketing. She worked as a freelance journalist until opportunity met preparation when she won a fellowship from an NPR affiliate to write and produce a documentary podcast about […]
REPLACEMENT CHILD, Amy Roost
A memoir of race, place, and acceptance, relating the startling discovery that prior to her adoption as an infant by a middle class white Midwestern family, Amy Roost’s parents had adopted–and returned–a Black child. Roost’s search for the shadowy “sister” her parents left behind leads her to redefine the true meaning of family. Roost is […]