Waiting to see the documentary as it travels across the country in select cities? Go to the nearest chain bookstore and pick up the book – it’s very similar, just with more haunting detail.
The book, The Girls Who Went Away, is based on the audio interviews author Ann Fessler conducted with women who surrendered children for adoption during the baby scoop era. She used these same interviews to put together her documentary of the same name.
I’m only into Chapter 3. Around that point I realized I simply can’t read too much at a time. These stories are full of grief, and I feel it jumping out of the page. I can’t begin to imagine what it has been like to live through these experiences.
I appreciate Fessler sharing her own story as an adult adoptee in the first chapter. It brings a bit of the other side of the story into the picture.
Great book and documentary – reveals the TRUTH of the time – thank you ANN FESSLER
This is a secret that needs to be shared and understood. Our stories will be forgotten when my generation passes.
Fessler’s book,”The Girls Who Went Away” and her documentary, “A Girl Like Her” should be required reading for all woman and men.
I’m one of the 1.5 million or more “girls who went away.”
The instruction to “Forget all about her. Go on with my life.” was impossible.
I’ve been dragging this concrete block of pain around for more than 40 years! It has affected nearly my entire life – who I married, how I feel about my children, most importantly, how I view myself.
I managed to reunite with my surrended child, but all those years are still lost to both of us.
Jane
Keep on bloggin’…..a.k.a. keep on truckin’ from the late sixties…my favorite blog is yours!