Vanessa McGrady is an award-winning journalist, social media strategist and communications professional. She’s also been a playwright, actor, producer and
voice-over artist. She can sing “Home on the Range” in Yiddish, which is apropos of nothing.
She is the author of
Rock Needs River, a memoir.
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My Book, The Movie: Rock Needs River;
The Page 99 Test: Rock Needs River;
Writers Read: Vanessa McGrady (March 2019)]
At Shepherd McGrady tagged five favorite books about adoption, including:
God and Jetfire: Confessions of a Birth Mother by Amy Seek
Deciding to place a child for adoption is one of the most excruciating decisions in the human experience. When Amy Seek, a promising 
architecture student, becomes pregnant, she’s not yet ready to become a parent. But she’s also not ready, completely, to hand over her child to a perfectly lovely family. Her tale of love, heartbreak, and acceptance is a reminder to parents and non-parents of all circumstances that there are lots of ways to make a family—and in this case, it was the best, most perfectly imperfect option. I think this is a really important book for everyone in the adoption triad (birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees) to read, because it really gets up close and uncomfortably personal with the struggle some birth mothers undergo, despite the unlimited love they have for their babies.
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another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
voice-over artist. She can sing “Home on the Range” in Yiddish, which is apropos of nothing.
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