Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home

A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.

By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her family and left-all of them Indigenous like her. "When will it be my turn?" she asks her mother time and time again. "When will I be taken away?" You won't be, she is told. You're adopted. You're here to stay. You're the lucky one.

On the day of her birth in 1989, near the...