Overview
Travel across the years in this collage memoir rendered in archival letters and images, lyrical vignettes, and poetry; a poignant framing of an infant girl's 1950s abandonment and domestic closed adoption by a military couple. Amid a tangle of primal loss and privilege; the separation, secrecy, discipline, and transience through the turbulent 1960s, an Air Force officer's adopted daughter struggles with identity bewilderment. At forty, the need to know her origins surfaces, and she begins searching for her original family. Decades later, on her parallel journey of DNA self-discovery, she reconciles her adopted life and gains the wealth of natural heritage. (Second Edition)
Full Product Details
Author: Mary Ellen Gambutti ,
Lmhc Brooke Randolph
Publisher: Mary Ellen Gambutti
Imprint: Mary Ellen Gambutti
Edition: 2nd ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.308kg
ISBN: 9781643888620
ISBN 10: 1643888625
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 08 August 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Five Stars ""...hits the core issues most adopted people experience...belonging, differentness, loss, and loneliness...excellent writing skills that reflect her poetic side...leaving no stone unturned...research, citations, documentation, and photographs...I highly recommend this book to adopted people and their parents, both birth/first and adoptive, as well as pre-adoptive parents, and child welfare professionals, for its authenticity, readability, and wealth of information.""-- Joanne Wolf Small, Adoptee, Author, The Adoption Mystique: A Hard-Hitting Exposé of the Powerful Negative Social Stigma That Permeates Child Adoption in the United States; Adoptee, MSW, LCSW-C ...
"A Five Star Book! ""...hits the core issues most adopted people experience...belonging, differentness, loss, and loneliness...excellent writing skills that reflect her poetic side...leaving no stone unturned...research, citations, documentation, and photographs..."" --Joanne Wolf Small, MSW, LCSW-C"
A Five Star Book! ...hits the core issues most adopted people experience...belonging, differentness, loss, and loneliness...excellent writing skills that reflect her poetic side...leaving no stone unturned...research, citations, documentation, and photographs... --Joanne Wolf Small, MSW, LCSW-C
Author Information
Gambutti's memoirs and essays are published in many literary journals. Randolph, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, specializes in Adoption, Brainspotting, Relationships, and Developmental Trauma.
