Kathy Briccetti's Reviews
Reviews of Kathy’s Work
Jul.01.2010
Published by The East Bay Express
It's a psychologically gripping tale of love, loss, and sexual identity, but it's also the story of adoptions spanning three generations. Briccetti was four when her parents...
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Jun.18.2010
Published by PINK magazine
BLOOD STRANGERS is a memoir about making family with the people we love. It’s about three generations of adoption and absent fathers and two women raising two sons in the San...
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Jun.01.2010
Published by http://www.gayalliance.org/emptycloset/2010/07/book-review-blood-strangers/
Blood Strangers does what I had previously thought impossible of a memoir. It tells a story that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and heart-warming, profound and yet focused on...
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Jun.20.2010
Published by Literarymama.com
Blood Strangers, a new memoir by Kathy Briccetti is both a coming out and coming-of-age story as well as a genealogical mystery, which untangles a multi-generational chain of...
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May.11.2010
Published by Edge
impressive memoir...this book, "quiet" by industry standards, is more gripping than most big press memoirs that are efficiently marketable with the one-line blurb...[her]...
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Apr.10.2010
Published by Examiner.com
In her memoir, Blood Strangers, Katherine A. Briccetti takes on the complex, politically-charged and personally confusing question of what constitutes a family and how one’s...
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May.27.2009
Published by http://foodthought.org/labels/mama%20phd.html
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Jun.11.2008
Published by LizaWasHere blog
Briccetti’s essay was a favorite for more personal reasons. I owe her and her family a debt of gratitude — they were pioneers in the effort to have same-sex second-parent...
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Nov.08.2006
Published by food for thought.com
All of these women write about families, but I was especially moved by stories of creating families, or asserting them in the face of challenges. I teared up at the end of Kathy...
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Nov.08.2006
Published by Half Changed World.com
In spite of that long list of issues, the voices were different enough that the book never felt like a litany of complaints. Anna Quindlen's piece on being pregnant in New York...
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Published by Mombian.com
Book Review: The Maternal Is Political
The Maternal Is PoliticalThe Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change, a collection of 43...
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About Kathy
Kathy Briccetti's essays and book reviews have been published in literary magazines, newspapers and anthologies. Her first memoir, BLOOD STRANGERS, the story of searching for her place in her family's three generations of adoption and absent fathers, was...
Connections
Causes Kathy Briccetti Supports
Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society
Women's Educational Media