Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness and Healing (PB) (2019)

Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in America, Too Brown to Keep: A Search for Love, Forgiveness, and Healing recount the author's inspirational odyssey, as she uncovers family secrets, a public rejection, and the discovery of her Ashkenazi Jewish grandmother who died in the Nazi Concentration camp during World War II. She gives a captivating, true account of the emotional and psychological effects of being biracial, abandoned, and overcoming grief and loss writing a thought-provoking chapter on forgiveness and healing. This easy-to-read book concludes with a guide to researching your own ancestry or finding and reconnecting with a person who has been missing from your life.