This is the memoir of a mother who was forced to give up her child when she got pregnant as a teen but reconnects with her grown son. It's really kind of heart wrenching because the son is kind of a jerk and her parents are as well but in connecting with her son, she also connects with other members of her family that she never knew. It's well written and easy to read without becoming overbearing. It was difficult to sympathize with this woman or the son she gave up for adoption 26 years earlier, but she was raised in an incredibly dysfunctional family, and the son was adopted by an equally dysfunctional family. Their expectations for their reunion 26 years later were terribly unrealistic and fraught with difficulties. But it was an interesting and different perspective on adoption. This is a memoir, not fiction.
A depressing read, but perhaps should be read by birth parents considering a search.
—hazie
Memoir. Very well written. A heart-wrenching tale of lives in turmoil.
—gold76
This book made me think about all the babies that are not wanted.
—chariz
