Hello, Friends ~

I Must Have Wandered has been out since August, and has received lovely reviews. Readers decide whether or not a book is for them, based on Amazon and Goodreads reviews, and we indie authors rely on them. Here are a few:

     "I believe this book is a wonderful tool to aid adoptees as they struggle. Kudos to Mary Ellen Gambutti for aiding her fellow adoptees along their own journeys." - Reader, Mona 

     "In this powerful memoir...Mary Ellen Gambutti narrates the complicated journey to restoring her identity after adoption. Gambutti describes her upbringing, in turns idyllic and traumatic...readers will be enlightened by [her] portrayal of an adoptee's pervasive feelings of loss, impermanence, and abandonment. [she] explains how adoptees must stay hypervigilant, which takes center stage when she devotes herself to the search for her family of origin, and in the process finds herself. The book will be of special interest to adoptees, but all readers will benefit from the wisdom of her experience, and her devout pursuit of self-knowledge."-- Self-Publishing Review

     "The complexity of the adoptee's search for place and self in this world is universal, powerful, and effectively explained." —Paige Adams Strickland, author of Akin to the Truth: A Memoir of Adoption and Identity and After the Truth
    "All those who love and support members of the adoption constellation need adoption memoirs...an opportunity to discover one's own personal ambiguous thoughts and feelings crystallized in another's words."  From the Foreword —Brooke Randolph, LMHC, therapist, author, speaker, and trainer. 

If you've read my book: 

• What did you like about it? 
• Where could I have done better?
• Would you say it's a valuable resource to the adoption community? 
• What about it would non-adoptees enjoy? 
• Readers of autobiography, memoir, hybrid writing?
• First families? Triad members?
• Therapists and Social Workers?

Please share your thoughts at this link: Review  Amazon Buy link

Choice of digital storefronts: I Must Have Wandered 

Warm thanks for your help in growing my readership!

Mary Ellen