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Book Review of Looking for Lost Bird : A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots

Looking for Lost Bird : A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
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"In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died."