My Planets: a fictive memoir

Imagine this. You're 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.

Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they've found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.

From Ground Zero, you begin a journey of rediscovery to reclaim your identity. But the truths you gather are relative, subjective. Like speculating on the nature of the universe from the perspective of one planet and then again from another.

My Planets is in fact a suite of works -- a physical book; an enhanced eBook incorporating images, music, sound and video with spoken word and text, a film. Like most of David P Reiter's work, it challenges the boundaries, changing shape with the message, inviting the reader to time-travel on a Tardis of the mind.

Making his planets your own.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• adoption
• orphan
• biological parents
• adoptive parents
• only child
• Jewish orphans
• David P Reiter
• solar system
• astronomy
• cosmology
• Greek myths
• Roman myths
• Mercury
• Venus
• Mars
• Saturn
• Jupiter
• Holtz
• Uranus
• Pluto
• Neptune
• Stolen Generation