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Julia Meyers is an adoptee from a German closed adoption who makes the decision to shine light on the truth. In her new book, Coffee and Cake: An Adoptee In Search of Her Past, Meyers takes the reader on a journey across continents and time, as she uncovers the mystery of her past. An often untold point of view, Meyers dispels many myths in adoption as she honestly lays her emotional journey out for the reader to see. Fierce in loyalty to her adoptive parents, Meyers reveals the true motivation behind her search for her birth family: they are a part of who she is. As she uncovers the answers, new dilemmas emerge. Her family grows, yet as Meyers discovers, each has their own story to tell as well. A beautiful weave of time and place, the book takes the reader from Germany to the United States and proves just how small our world truly is. Readers will come to understand how societal pressures can lead to misunderstandings, how closed adoptions deny a child s beginnings, leaving them feeling a piece of who they are is missing, and how time does not always heal all wounds. Ultimately, the story is one of love, the growth of family, the joy of truth, the construction of self-image. Meyers provides us with a much needed piece of the adoption puzzle and a great read to accompany an afternoon with coffee and cake!
For me, COFFEE AND CAKE provided both the intimacy of a highly-personal memoir and the cliff-hanging plot twists of a good old-fashioned mystery. As a 72-year-old greybeard with 7 grandkids, all from a common lineage, my familiarity with the subject of the book was non-existent, as was what I thought would be my interest. "Birth parents"? "Adoptees"? The decision of a 28-year-old mother to "selflessly sever a part of herself as a gift to strangers"? This was unplowed ground.A combination of sparkling writing and the storyline of an immigrant adoptee who had achieved American citizenship and a doctorate in archeology, only to discover that WHAT she was wasn't nearly as important as WHO she was, kept me turning the pages.Her search for her birth mother, then father, led her back to her native Germany, and a private detective-like effort at international sleuthing that ultimately led her to the woman who had selflessly severed a part of herself, and given Julia a life that she herself could not have provided.That discovery was just the beginning. Would her adoptive parents fret over her need to find those who had provided life itself? Would there be siblings? Would her birth mother's new husband accept this stranger from America? Should her two mothers meet? The opportunity for loving interaction was tempered throughout by the very real potential for familial discord on both sides of the ocean.If a single word was necessary to describe COFFEE AND CAKE, that word for me would be "authentic".The sensitivity exhibited throughout the book extended as well to me, the reader, as I was ledinto this very personal element of her life gently, honestly, and completely.
