I Would Meet You Anywhere

"​​""A brave, compassionate, and necessary memoir that bears witness to how we let go, when we hold on, and how families are not just born but chosen."" --Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning ""Unguarded [and] penetrating ... [Ito] finally claims her identity, her truth, her rallying cry of 'I exist.'"" --Terry Hong, Booklist ""An intimate, deftly told story illuminating adoption's complications and losses, I Would Meet You Anywhere is sure to move anyone who has ever felt rootless, questioned their place within their family, or longed for deeper self-understanding."" --Nicole Chung, author of A Living Remedy ""I Would Meet You Anywhere is the poignant memoir of Susan Kiyo Ito's search for her birth parents. Ito's story opens the door to Japanese American adoptions with insight and understanding into the complexities of family, identity, and choice. A rich and compelling read."" --Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Brightest Star: A Novel ""If it is possible to feel all the emotions in a single book, this is it. Determined to no longer be the secret or the 'wild inconvenience, ' Susan Ito writes with grace, courage, and wonder. I Would Meet You Anywhere is a cinematic, breathtaking journey of family, identity, and secrets: an instant classic in adoption literature."" -- Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate ""In the intimate pages of I Would Meet You Anywhere, Ito yearns to learn of her parentage within the confounding context of closed adoption. As Ito plots a path to locate and know the birth parent who forsook her, we experience the pain of diminishing the self in order to be seen. An exquisite memoir of mothering and daughtering amid racial and generational differences."" --Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of Real American: A Memoir ""My heart waxed and waned as I witnessed Ito navigate fraught interactions with her biological mother. This deeply moving memoir grapples with where the biological family fits amid a cacophony of secrets and longing all too often faced by adoptees."" --Angela Tucker, author of ""You Should Be Grateful"" Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption ""Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutting with her words. But it is all in service of her own healing and to encourage us all to be brave enough to do the same in our own stories."" --W. Kamau Bell, author of Do the Work! An Antiracist Activity Book"