Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

by Susan Devan Harness

Book Overview

2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories)
2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado

In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her "real" parents. He replied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496207467
• ISBN13: 9781496207463
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 9.2"