My Planets: a fictive memoir

Imagine this. You're 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.

Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they've found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.

From Ground Zero, you begin a journey of rediscovery to reclaim your identity. But the…