The Girls Who Went Away (Paperback)

By Ann Fessler
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Description

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.

About the Author

Ann Fessler is a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in art installation.

Praise for The Girls Who Went Away…

Journalism of the first order, moving and informative in equal measure. (San Francisco Chronicle)

A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book. (The New York Times Book Review)

A wrenching, riveting book. (Chicago Tribune)

Haunting. (People)

Product Details ISBN-10: 0143038974
ISBN-13: 9780143038979
Published: Penguin (Non-Classics), 07/01/2007
Pages: 368
Language: English