Dear Jeff is a chronicle of an adventure in cross-racial adoption, growing up black and white, fighting for civil rights in rural Mississippi in 1965 and of an integrated family's estrangement and reconciliation, hope and joy. In Dear Jeff the author offers a collection of letters endeavoring to reach a posthumous emotional reconciliation with his adopted African-American son, Jeff. Seeking to fill voids in his relationship with Jeff, Gough shares experiences that greatly impacted his decision to adopt six year old Jeff and his twin sister Sheila. He describes emotionally movng events of his...