Redefining Family: A Birthmother's Path to Wholeness
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Publisher Description
Pregnant at seventeen, she makes an adoption plan.
What will happen to her child?
What will happen to her?
Alycea is determined to create a better life for her baby and for herself. The only path she can see is placing her baby for adoption. In an industry stacked against birthparents, she must fight for her rights and her child's best interest. When the baby is born, Alycea breaks her own heart to spare her daughter's. But is the sacrifice worth it? Will her daughter be happier and healthier with her new family? And will Alycea ever be okay?
Twenty years of a birthmother's life are exposed in this bare-bones memoir of open adoption. It will break your heart, then heal it, with a new perspective on how we define family.
Customer Reviews
A universal tale of grief and RESILIENCE
I have no personal experience with adoption, but I found countless nuggets of wisdom in this book. Every woman will find something with which to identify in this memoir, be it the lost teenager who simply wants to be loved, or the diligent, stubbornly persistent young adult who will stop at nothing to see her vision come to life, or the woman grieving over a decision that she knows in her soul to be right, although it breaks heart into a thousand pieces to do it. The author's depiction of grief is particularly resonant with me -- she shows the messy, unpredictable, ultimately beautiful roller coaster of grief, and reminds us that eventually, we come out on the other side of it, healed and all the wiser.