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American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents, and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who's won three Stanley Cups, and her birthmother, a working-class woman from Pittsburgh. This is not the whitewashed story, but the real story, where Beatty writes through complete erasure: loss of name and history, and a culture based...
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