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...