I Would Meet You Anywhere

By Susan Kiyo Ito,

Book cover of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir

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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same…

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2 authors picked I Would Meet You Anywhere as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I Would Meet You Anywhere is a heart-wide-open book...a compelling memoir about adoption, identity, mother-daughter relationships, and more. The author's deftness in portraying a daughter's primal need to be seen and known and accepted by her mother(s) brought me to tears of recognition. Brava!

First off, Ito is just a masterful storyteller. If she had to write about restocking shelves at a grocery store, Ito would make it riveting and hilarious. So, just reading her writing is a highly engaging joy. Second, this story is epic. This is Ito’s story of finding her birth mother and the challenges, joys, and heartbreak of that reunion as she herself became a mother.

What I love most about Ito’s story is that she effortlessly threads the needle of being real and raw yet funny and relatable at the same time. Whether you are a mom, dad, childless,…

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