A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family

"By providing a deeper understanding and appreciation of the adoption journey, she enables us to more clearly see and honour adoptive families... This memoir shifted my perceptions in the way only compassionate and vulnerable writing can.” —Monica Meneghetti, Lambda Literary finalist and award-winning author of What the Mouth Wants.

When starting the adoption process, Jane Byers and her wife could not have predicted the illuminating and challenging experience of living for two weeks with the Evangelical Christian foster parents of their soon-to-be adopted twins. Parenthood becomes even more daunting when homophobia threatens their beginnings as a family, seeping in from places both unexpected and familiar.

In this moving and poetic memoir, Byers draws readers into her own tumultuous beginnings: her coming out years, finding love, and the start of her parenting journey. Little did Byers know that her experiences when coming out was merely training for becoming an adoptive parent of racialized twins. Small Courage: A Queer Memoir of Finding Love and Conceiving Family is a thoughtful and heart-warming examination of love, queerness and what it means to be a family.