Hidden girls

Hidden girls A birth mother's story of reunion & reckoning

Julia MacDonnell

Book - 2024

When Julia MacDonnell's relinquished son found her just a few years after Massachusetts opened its sealed adoption records to adult adoptees, she was jubilant. Not only would he forgive her for signing away her parental rights to him nearly a half century before, he'd join his much younger half-siblings in a big happy blended family. She'd be able, at long last, to emerge from the secret that had controlled more than two thirds of her life. But that is not what happened. Hidden Girls: A Birth Mother's Story of Reunion and Reckoning brings readers into the emotional heart of adoption loss, showing how the secrets and silence of closed adoption permanently twist kinship histories and undermine the compassion of those invol...ved in it.

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Subjects
MacDonnell, Julia.
Birthmothers > United States > Biography.
Adoption > Psychological aspects.
Confidential communications > United States.
Parental grief.
Adoption.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Genres
Biographies
Autobiographies
Published
[Place of publication not identified] : Bookbaby 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Julia MacDonnell (author)
Physical Description
186 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
9798350956672
  • The Past Breaks In
  • The Vow Of Silence
  • Learning Curve
  • The Republic Of Shame
  • The Story Behind The Story
  • What We Carried
  • Red Lights and Erring Girls
  • Transubstantiation
  • Stories, Lost In Transit
  • Upside Down House
  • Something's Happening Here
  • Leaving Home
  • It's All Over Now
  • Desolation Row
  • The Summer That Came Before
  • Baby Daddy
  • Spinning Round And Round
  • Choose Oblivion
  • Me In My Body
  • Mother Love
  • Ghost Mother
  • Mothers Freed At Last
  • Threatened
  • Bastards/Blue Ribbon Babies
  • Best Interests
  • Home Stretch
  • Delivery Day
  • Broken Promise
  • Surrender
  • Too Soon
  • Silence Is A Plan
  • Bad Dreams
  • Acquiescense
  • Searching Back Then
  • Works Of Mercy
  • Remedies
  • Golden Fairy Tale
  • Reality Bites
  • Sweet Fantasies
  • Reunion Redux
  • Are You My Mother?
  • Passages
  • What's Done Is Never Done
  • Cultural Kerfuffle
  • Whoomp! There It Is!
  • Coda
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Recommended Readings

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