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NIEA Finalist in Faction and New Fiction, and IPPY Bronze Medal recipient for European Fiction, Janell Strube is the award-winning author of Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution. She's also a poet and memoirist, a world traveler, a baker, a bicyclist and a mean barbecue sauce maker. But when she writes, her identity as an adoptee often steers her attention to topics of alienation, erased history, and displacement.

In 2024, a personal essay of hers was published in the anthology Adoption and Suicidality. Her work has also appeared in Shaking the Tree: brazen. short. memoir and A Year in Ink. Her short memoir, “Taking my Blonde Daughter to a Black Lives Matter Rally,” was selected for the 2020 San Diego Memoir Showcase, an annual live storytel ...more

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	Adélaïde: Painter of the Revolution 4.89 avg rating — 45 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adoption and Suicidality: An Anthology of Stories, Poems, and Resources for Adoptees, Families, Healthcare Professionals, and Allies by Beth Syverson (Goodreads Author), Joseph Nakao, Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao (Foreword) 4.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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For those of you located in the Philadelphia area, I will be at the Plymouth Meeting Barnes & Noble on Saturday, July 11 from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. signing books, with an author talk at 1:30.

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