Caroline clarke bio

Though she learned at a fairly young age that she had been adopted, she had little desire to know the identity of her birth parents.

Then, in 2002, some health issues prompted Clarke, a mother of two, to start digging into her past. What she discovered could have served as the plot for a big-screen drama.

In her book, Clarke, who is executive content producer at Black Enterprise and host of “Black Enterprise Business Report,” writes about balancing her professional and personal life, while maneuvering the emotional minefield of her adoptive parents’ feelings and confronting her newfound family’s long-suppressed secrets.

 Ebonycalled it “riveting,” while Kirkus Reviews described it as a “gripping” read.

Here, Clarke talks about the lessons offered by her life-changing experience of searching for her birth mother.

Why did you decide to write this book?