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When You Never Said Goodbye: An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother: A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries
When You Never Said Goodbye An Adoptee's Search for Her Birth Mother A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries Author:Meg Kearney Against the odds, eighteen-year-old Liz McLane, adoptee and aspiring poet, searches for her birth mother in this sensitive and daring novel told through her own accessible and moving poems and journal entries. �A student at NYU in Greenwich Village, Liz McLane is pursuing her dream of becoming a poet and, at the same time, determined to find her... more » birth mother, no matter what the results may be. Through her journals, Liz records her struggle to navigate adoption bureaucracy and laws.� In spare and poignant poems, she confides her fears and her prayers.� Could her birth mother be the unknown guitarist in Washington Square Park, who sings a soulful song in a strangely familiar voice?� Against a backdrop of college life?classes on Alice Munro and Billy Collins and an active social life?and with the help of her sister, friends, and a private investigator, Liz summons the courage to face the truth about her mother and herself. ��This is an unforgettable novel full of heart that addresses the primary questions all adoptees must answer for themselves: who was the woman who gave me life, and why did she decide to give me away?� Based on author Meg Kearney?s own experiences. �« less