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The subject of adoption is current and has been widely debated since 2018 when SVT reported suspicions about stolen children from Chile who were adopted to Sweden. An investigation is currently underway into the adoption business in Sweden from the 1960s until today. These are questions that have engaged me throughout my life and are part of me and my history. As an adopted child from India, I came to Sweden as a one-year-old. In this book, I dig into the history that is mine and shed light on society's norms and ways of looking at adoption, racism and exclusion.

With this book, I mainly want to encourage thought and reflection. But I also have a desire to strengthen other adoptees who can recognize themselves, receive support and feel a sense of belonging. The book's central questions are existential - they are fundamentally about the right to one's own