Postcards from Cookie

An “elegant, funny, and poignant” memoir of a journalist’s discovery of her birth mother—a daughter of Nat King Cole—and the bond that formed between them ( Essence ). Caroline Clarke, award-winning journalist and host of Black Enterprise Business Report , was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered about her biological parents, she kept her curiosity in check, until a series of small health problems raised concerns about her genetic heritage and its c