About Discovering Mom:
DISCOVERING MOM is set in Oklahoma during the 1970s and focuses on thirteen-year-old Daniel Bennett. Adopted at birth and part Comanche, Daniel struggles with identity issues and feels like a complete outsider both at home and at school. But then he meets and befriends Jasmine Thornhill—the other biracial student in his seventh-grade algebra class—and together they find the courage to shake up the status quo, beating up bullies and starting their own gang of loners and misfits. Jasmine also encourages Daniel to find his birth parents, and with the help of her detective uncle, they manage to locate Daniel’s birth mother, Karen, living hundreds of miles away in the San Francisco Bay Area. She agrees to reconnect with Daniel over the phone. Yet the more they talk and get to know each other, the more he longs to be with her, prompting him and Jasmine to do the unthinkable as they say goodbye to their cozy existence and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
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Author Bio:
I’m a fiction writer based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and thus far I’ve written five novels. What inspired me to write “Discovering Mom,” you might ask? Well, like my main character, Daniel, I too was adopted at birth—though I’m part Italian instead of Native American—and I wanted to write about what it’s like to grow up being different than your brothers and sisters and all your schoolmates. I also thought it’d be nice for Daniel to find a kindred spirit, so I created Jasmine who proves to be every bit his equal as they search for more like-minded people, including his birth mother. On top of everything else, I wanted to write something more whimsical and less dark than my last story—something that will hopefully appeal to a broader audience despite my quirky sense of humor.