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Childless Mother: A Search for Son and Self

Tracy Mayo
4.59/5 (19 ratings)
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"In her courageous and beautifully rendered memoir, Childless Mother, Tracy Mayo breaks ranks with the institutionalized secrecy, shame, and silencing that shattered countless pregnant girls and young women prior to legalized abortion and open adoption." — KATE MOSES, author of Wintering, A Memoir, and Mothers Who Think

1970, pre-Choice America. After their eighth move in her thirteen short years, the lonely only child of a high-ranking naval officer and a socially ambitious mother, Tracy Mayo longed for a normal adolescence — to have friends, to feel rooted. What she got was a pregnancy at fourteen and exile to a maternity home. There, she bore not only a child but also the weight of the culture's shame. She was required to surrender her baby boy at birth and pretend it never happened. Twenty-two years later, her longing undiminished, Tracy set out to find him — and perhaps, through her search, to reclaim her self. Are we moving back to a world where women have no agency, stripped of control of their bodies and their futures? More than fifty years after one frightened, grief-stricken young mother was ordered to forget, Tracy's story is even more important to remember.

“Mayo creates a compelling nonfiction narrative that effectively conveys her feelings as a child and as an adult dealing with the fallout of choices her parents made…examines the complexities of reuniting with children given up for adoption — including birth parents’ acceptance of, and by, the families that raised their children — in a nuanced and insightful manner.” — Kirkus Reviews

"A lesson in motherly love and in the wisdom of dismissing the fear of disapproval or social exclusion. It is also a lesson in compassion, forgiveness, and understanding the origins of the complex web of fear and desire that drive our choices. It takes us on an emotional roller coaster, but one that reaches a deeply satisfying resolution." — Readers' Favorite
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183794024X
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9781837940240
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B0CW1VFP1X

Childless Mother: A Search for Son and Self

Tracy Mayo
4.59/5 (19 ratings)
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"In her courageous and beautifully rendered memoir, Childless Mother, Tracy Mayo breaks ranks with the institutionalized secrecy, shame, and silencing that shattered countless pregnant girls and young women prior to legalized abortion and open adoption." — KATE MOSES, author of Wintering, A Memoir, and Mothers Who Think

1970, pre-Choice America. After their eighth move in her thirteen short years, the lonely only child of a high-ranking naval officer and a socially ambitious mother, Tracy Mayo longed for a normal adolescence — to have friends, to feel rooted. What she got was a pregnancy at fourteen and exile to a maternity home. There, she bore not only a child but also the weight of the culture's shame. She was required to surrender her baby boy at birth and pretend it never happened. Twenty-two years later, her longing undiminished, Tracy set out to find him — and perhaps, through her search, to reclaim her self. Are we moving back to a world where women have no agency, stripped of control of their bodies and their futures? More than fifty years after one frightened, grief-stricken young mother was ordered to forget, Tracy's story is even more important to remember.

“Mayo creates a compelling nonfiction narrative that effectively conveys her feelings as a child and as an adult dealing with the fallout of choices her parents made…examines the complexities of reuniting with children given up for adoption — including birth parents’ acceptance of, and by, the families that raised their children — in a nuanced and insightful manner.” — Kirkus Reviews

"A lesson in motherly love and in the wisdom of dismissing the fear of disapproval or social exclusion. It is also a lesson in compassion, forgiveness, and understanding the origins of the complex web of fear and desire that drive our choices. It takes us on an emotional roller coaster, but one that reaches a deeply satisfying resolution." — Readers' Favorite
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
183794024X
ISBN13:
9781837940240
kindle Asin:
B0CW1VFP1X

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