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Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir of Faith and Gratitude
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About Spitting Image: A Foundling's Memoir Of Faith And
Product Description A 40-Year Search for Truth One bright summer afternoon on weekend errands with his mother, 10-year-old Ronald's faint suspicions that he is adopted are confirmed by his mother's careful, well-practiced announcement of the truth. As a child whose appearance is close enough to that of his extended African-American adoptive family, he has always felt a part of them, but now things make a little more sense, and a 40-year odyssey of seeking his genetic truth is triggered. The formative years of spiritual training by his Baptist Minister grandfather return to steady him as he is confronted by startling revelations of his birth-parents' past and his abandonment at a Detroit hospital shortly after birth. Spitting Image is a sweeping saga spanning hundreds of years that results in the creation of one unique human being who against all odds survives them to deliver a message of faith and great hope. Are you ready for the truth? Review Levi paints a picture honoring strong, beautiful, courageous women. A baby once abandoned finds his deep roots and an understanding of unfathomable bravery. This book is a dive into a complex and rich history, one of courage, sadness, joy, understanding, and redemption. Take the time to read these words and journey into the past, the present, and the influence of determined and strong women, mothers that shape the future through their love for their children even in the most devastating of circumstances. --HEATHER BURNER, National Safe Haven Alliance The journey of this foundling serves as a light post to anyone "in search of". For Ron, it was birth parents. Be it lost family, lost loves, or lost innocence, by taking us along his personal journey, Ron gives hope and inspiration to anyone who has missing puzzle pieces or unexplored questions about their past. His experience proves that voids can be filled, wounds can be healed, and God is real. --A ï DA OWENS, Owens Reviews A total page turner about one man's phenomenal genetic journey that spans across chasms of race, class, time and the globe. As a veteran child protection attorney, to me, this memoir covers the intersectionality between the quest for personal identity using the science of newly accessible DNA technology in finding one's true roots. Exploring concepts like "genetic reparations," race as a mere social construct, and unity in hyper divided times---makes this tome timely, relatable and highly relevant. Full disclosure: I am proud to say the author is none other than my cousin, Ronald G. Levi. -- TRACEY MARTIN, ESQ. From the Author Adoption Every adoption is as unique as the parties involved. The child, the parents, their circumstances, their hopes and expectations and the permutations and combinations of these elements make it difficult if not impossible to generalize attributes. One need which is very common if not universal among adoptees, however, is the need for closure. Whether their adoptive experience has been ideal, loving and joyful or filled with pain and resentment, many adoptees simply want to know something factual about their genetic identity. For African Americans perhaps this need is particularly acute. The legacy of slavery and its obliteration of customs, language, and community from memory has in some ways inflicted a wound which never heals. An open sore which never scabs over - a perpetual grieving for what was stolen and may never be regained. As a biracial child who was raised in an African-American family and in the urban diamond forged through heat and pressure known as Detroit, I grew up learning about the diaspora, the institution of slavery, the continued persecution of black people through Jim Crow and into the present. I longed to know from which countries my African ancestors were brought to America. What were their customs and traditions before they arrived on these shores? Although I accepted that I might never know the answer to those questions, a more imp
