Seeking Forgiveness - Lea Rachel

“Seeking Forgiveness,” Lea Rachel’s new novel, tells the story of interracial adoption in the US today, from the perspective of a white mother who adopts a black son, and finds she has no idea what she is doing.

In the book, Rachel struggles with her competence as a mother, questions the viability of inter-racial adoption, and worries that her son will never forgive her for the mistakes she has made as his adoptive mother

Lea, is a professor at The University of Missouri-St. Louis will address these issues:

The adoption process.
Her personal choice to adopt an interracial baby.
The struggles she faced raising an interracial child.
Race in America today.
The special bond parents share with their adoptive children.

http://www.learachel.com/