Hole In My Heart
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Hole In My Heart

by Lorraine Dusky Biographies & Memoirs Parenting

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Hole In My Heart is a memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption, starting with the is the compelling story of a mother separated from her child by adoption in the Sixties and the state-imposed secrecy that keeps them apart. Defying convention, Lorraine Dusky reunites with her daughter in the early Eighties when such r... eunions were rare, and in the process becomes a staunch advocate for reform of America's antiquated adoption system. Richly supplemented with 103 footnotes and sidebars. read more

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Lorraine Dusky
United States4 Books
Biographies & Memoirs General Nonfiction

BIOGRAPHY
Lorraine Dusky is an award-winning journalist, editor and author who prefers to write stories that will make a difference. Her controversial memoir, BIRTHMARK, published in 1979, was the first from a mother to write about the grief of giving up a child to adoption.

She began her career as a newspaper report... er when she was 14, writing for her hometown newspaper. Her goal was always to break out of old-fashioned "women's news," yet her life and writing has been greatly shaped by the daughter she gave up for adoption, culminating in her recent book, HOLE IN MY HEART. read more

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Book Detail
Title Hole In My Heart
Author Lorraine Dusky
ASIN B00ZQ0ZAQI
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