Gari M.'s Reviews > Umbilicus

Umbilicus is the account of a young woman's road to an understanding of the where, what and how she came to be fostered and grew up as an adoptee. Gruben's factual cutting honesty in her account of a trying and testing time, complexing coming of age with a balanced understanding of what it is that fortifies or strips the measure of being each of us attempts to juggle, gives the reader a true insight into the challenges faced by people born into such circumstances.