Blood = Water: The Search For Identity Beyond Biology

By Andrew Wullaert

What if your identity isn't something you discover-but something you build?

At twenty-seven years old, Andrew Wullaert received a phone call that changed everything.

The woman on the other end introduced herself as his full-blooded biological sister.

For many adoptees, that call would represent the end of a lifelong search.

For Andrew, it marked the beginning of an even bigger question:

Who decides who you become?

Blood = Water: The Search for Identity Beyond Biology is an honest and deeply personal memoir about adoption, reunion, identity, and the quiet realization that your past may explain where you came from-but it never has to define where you're going.

With humor, vulnerability, and hard-earned perspective, Wullaert explores the longing for connection, the fear of rejection, and the search for meaning that follows emotionally complicated beginnings.

But this isn't simply a book about adoption.

It's a book about agency.

It's about learning that peace doesn't come from finding all the answers. It comes from deciding that your future belongs to you.

Raw, thoughtful, and unexpectedly hopeful, Blood = Water is for adoptees, adoptive parents, biological families, and anyone who has ever wondered whether life's hardest moments get the final word.

They don't.

Blood explains where you came from.

You decide who you become.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4R6GR18
• ISBN13: 9798180596420
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"