I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging

I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging is a thought-provoking true adventure discussing international/transracial adoption and what it means to belong in two countries and two families.Taylor-Mosquera weaves together the intricacies of struggling to belong to the Black Latinx communities in the United States while enjoying white privilege without being white. he masters the Spanish language and goes on live television in Colombia to find his biological family twenty years after they learn of his secret birth. The tension that arise therein are magical and disturbing, which each page offering intimate details about an international quest to truly belong.

Jacob Taylor - Mosquera is an enthusiastic people connector in the extensive international adoption community. He regularly networks, promotes and participates in adoption-related events in the Pacific Northwest in the United States. Jacob also simultaneously provides informal cultural and linguistic consulting to other Latin American adult adoptees across the U.S., Europe and Australia. When he is not writing and teaching, Jacob is playing soccer and planning his next trip. I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging is his debut book. Jacob currently live in Seattle.