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Title: |
Tree of Strangers |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Barbara Sumner |
| ISBN10-13: |
0995135401 : 9780995135406 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x115mm |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Weight: |
.280 Kg. |
| Published: |
Massey University Press - September 2020 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Memoirs : Adoption & fostering |
| â I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.â I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother Iâ d never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing? Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a gripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Better call Maysie; Cold enough to cut your hair; God fights back; The Australia?; Another kind of memory; The changeling; And the dolphins walked on water; The opposite of Easter; You are an electromagnetic field; Abraham and Isaac went up a hill; Husband, father, painter, paperhanger; Wondering where the lions are; How many times can you change your name?; A cosmological view of time; Hear the cry for home; Oh so lucky; Your limbic brain on relinquishment; Sort of an orphan; Your phantom baby; Clarence Street forever; The snob; The cloth mummy; Spooky action at a distance; Game of statues; Land of light; All reasons, preferably special ones; You are your DNA; Notes about adoption; Notes; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Author’s note. |
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