American BastardAmerican Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continentsand continents of desireas Beatty finds her birthfather, a Canadian hockey player who has won three Stanley Cups, and her birthmother, a working class woman from Pittsburgh. This is not the whitewashed story, but the real story, where Beatty writes through complete erasure: loss of name and history, and a culture based