Pushing up the Sky: A Memoir

20th Anniversary Edition

20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

First Edition KAAN: Korean Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (July 2006) hardcover. Book Jacket Art © by Marcia Adams Ho.

Finalist for the Louis Littlecoon Oliver Memorial Prose Award with Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.

Terra Trevor, mixed-blood Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and her husband had one child before choosing to add more children to their family through foster care and adoption. They adopted twice: a one-year-old in 1984 and a ten-year-old in 1987, from South Korea. There are two stories in Trevor’s personal account. The first is about her third child experiencing difficulty adjusting from foster care in South Korea to adoption in the United States. The second story is about her son diagnosed with a brain tumor shortly after the arrival of a new sibling, an event that changed all of their lives forever.

This is the story of a family facing incredible challenges. It is a story of compromises, insights, profound joy, deep suffering, and terrific rewards. Most of all, it’s a story on the meaning of family, learning to let go of expectations and forge a new identity. In lyric prose Pushing up the Sky illuminates losses and blessings coming together. Hope is offered as a path, with the resolve to celebrate each new day and to cherish every second of it.

Please visit https://terratrevor.com/pushing-up-the-sky-a-memoir/ and take a little trip down memory lane with me.

In Spirit,

Terra Trevor

July 31, 2026