FIXING THE FATES: AN ADOPTEE’S STORY OF TRUTH & LIES
Gulf Coast author Diane Dewey talks with Big Blend Radio about her memoir “Fixing the Fates: An Adoptee’s Story of Truth and Lies” that shares a story of family secrets, lies, love, and redemption.
Diane Dewey is no stranger to storytelling and the arts. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum where she worked during the 1990’s, artists mediated the world and revealed their truths through painting, film and sculpture. When later employed at a contemporary gallery where collectors like the late publisher S. I. Newhouse strolled in on a Saturday, she marveled at the impact of an artist’s biography on their work. That set her own creativity in motion, to write the moving story of self-discovery as an adoptee she shares in “Fixing the Fates.”
Just months after the passing of her adopted father, Diane was contacted by someone in Switzerland– her biological father. Their meeting in the U.S. sets the scene for the unraveling of the mysteries, secrets, and lies surrounding Diane’s birth and biological family. Diane’s quest to finally understand her family’s past and reveal what her father has been hiding all these years is a thrilling account and emotionally vulnerable journey. Running parallel to the action is Diane’s desire for connection with her family and a new love, and the emergent understanding of how to grasp resolution.
Diane holds her BA from Villanova University, the Honors Program in Liberal Arts. She later completed a certificate program from The Art Institute of Philadelphia, working for the Solomon. R. Guggenheim Museum and the National Academy, before founding her own art appraisal firm. Diane earned a Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling from Capella University in 2015. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and near Schaffhausen, Switzerland with her husband and their rescue dog. Fixing the Fates is her first book. For more information about Diane, visit her website: http://dianedewey.com/
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