You'll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s - Paperback
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You'll Forget This Ever Happened: Secrets, Shame, and Adoption in the 1960s - Paperback
$16.95
by Laura L. Engel (Author)
Mississippi, 1967. It's the Summer of Love, yet unwed mothers' maternity homes are flourishing, secret closed adoptions are routine, and many young women still have no voice.
In You'll Forget This Ever Happened, Laura Engel takes us back to the Deep South during the turbulent 1960s to explore the oppression of young women who have committed the socially unacceptable crime of becoming pregnant without a ring on their finger. After being forced to give up her newborn son for adoption, Engel lives inside a fortress of silent shame for fifty years--but when her secret son finds her and her safe world is cracked open, those walls crumble. Are you still a mother even if you have not raised your child? Can the mother/child bond survive years of separation? How deep is the damage caused by buried family secrets and shame? Engel asks herself these and many other questions as she becomes acquainted with the son she never knew, and seeks the acceptance and forgiveness she has long denied herself. Full of both aching sadness and soaring joy, You'll Forget This Ever Happened is a shocking exposé of a shameful part of our country's recent past--and a poignant tale of a mother's enduring love.
Number of Pages: 344
Dimensions: 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: May 10, 2022
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