Introduction

Julie is adopted. She is also a twin. Because their adoption was closed, she and her sister lack both a health history and their adoption papers?which becomes an issue for Julie when, at forty-eight years old, she finds herself facing several serious health issues.

To launch the probe into her closed adoption, Julie first needs the support of her sister. The twins talk things over, and make a pact: Julie will approach their adoptive parents for the adoption paperwork and investigate search options, and the sisters will split the costs involved in locating their birth relatives. But their adoptive parents aren't happy that their daughters want to locate their birth parents?and that is only the first of many obstacles Julie will come up against as she digs into her background.

Julie's search for her birth relatives spans years and involves a search agency, a PI, a confidential intermediary, a judge, an adoption agency, a social worker, and a genealogist. By journey's end, what began as a simple desire for a family medical history has evolved into a complicated quest?one that unearths secrets, lies, and family members that are literally right next door.

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Discussion Questions

1) Did you or anyone you know consider adoption? Do you know any adoptees, birth parents or adoptive parents? Did any of these relationships affect how you viewed Twice a Daughter?

2) In what ways do you think the attitudes toward adoption and foster care have changed since Julie and Jenny were adopted in 1959?

3) With which character in Twice a Daughter did you most identify and why? who did you most admire?

4) After reading Twice a Daughter, do you have a different perspective on adoption and the issue of right to privacy versus the right to know?

5) Do you think all adoptees from the closed adoption era should have better access to their original birth certificates and family history? Why do you think this is still a hotly contested debate in many states? There are more Book Club questions and a Book Club Kit listed on the author's website at www.juliemcgueauthor.com.

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