The Girls Who Went Away

This is popular Social Science book PDF by Ann Fessler and published on 26 June 2007 by Penguin. The Girls Who Went Away book is available to download in pdf, epub and kindle format with total pages 368. Read online book directly from your device by click download button. You can see detail book and summary of The Girls Who Went Away book below. Enjoy the book and thanks for visiting us.

The Girls Who Went Away
The Girls Who Went Away
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Publisher : Penguin
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ISBN : 9781101644294
Pages : 368 pages
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“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” —The New York Times Book Review “A wrenching, riveting book.” —Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.

The Girls Who Went Away

The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler

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