What mattered was that she was a star on the diamond, where her father, a former Major Leaguer, coached her hard and counted on her to make him proud. Despite some teasing, being a biracial girl in a wealthy white family hasn't been that big a deal. She's adopted.Īlex has had a comfortable childhood in Madison, Wisconsin. An exceptionally accomplished debut." - Kirkus, starred reviewįor as long as she can remember, sixteen-year-old Alex Kirtridge has known two things about herself: She's a stellar baseball player. "Transracial adoption is never oversimplified, airbrushed, or sentimentalized, but instead, it's portrayed with bracing honesty as the messy institution it is: rearranging families, blending cultural and biological DNA, loss and joy.
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