Her fragmented upbringing left her feeling stateless, fatherless, nameless and identity-less. “Each place where I lived demanded a piece of me in exchange for acceptance,” she writes. From there, Bee and her adoptive mother converted to evangelical Christianity and experienced housing insecurity as they moved from Lyon to London to Reno, Nev. Bee’s ambitious, 12-chapter answer to the question posed to her by the French consulate in Washington, D.C., in the opening pages: “Where are you from?” Frequently a stranger in a strange land, Bee was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and raised from the age of 10 months old by her aunt and her aunt’s white French husband in Châtellerault, France, until they divorced.
HOME BOUND: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging (239 pp., Astra House, $28) is Vanessa A.
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