My Name Is Why - Lemn Sissay

My only knowledge about poet Lemn Sissay was hearing him on BBC Desert Island Discs a year or so ago.  In this memoir, he writes about his life as a child.  Given up for adoption, he first lives in a home with a family and then in group homes.  It truly is heartbreaking, and his poetry at the beginning of each chapter is short but moving.  I thought about this book long after I read it, about the author and the generation of children who were given up for adoption, and the mothers who felt they had no choice but to give up their children.  5/5