Beautiful Bastards is a poetic journey into a world of intertwined destinies; an adoption memoir involving three generations of women with disrupted ties. Through a tapestry of poetry, myth, visual art, and dreams, the author reconstructs origin stories as an adoptee, and for the daughter she gave up for adoption. In the process she continually transforms her sense of self and family.

The journey is told through imagery and visceral storytelling from her conception into her mystery years in foster care, adoption at age three, early childhood. The story pivots on sexual awakening and teen pregnancy, when she relinquishes her own newborn daughter.

Three generations move through the complexities of uncertain relationships, weaving loss, love and connection.

Original artwork, influenced by celestial images and the microscopic, speak to the text and frame life within the vastness of the cosmos.