Very Interesting, compelling read!

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The title of this book drew me in as well as the subject, since it’s a memoir of a woman as she recollects the events leading her to give up her child for adoption. Even more intriguing is the fact that following that traumatic event, she and the birth father go on to get married and have several additional children, full siblings to the first child that was given up for adoption. As a reader, I expected this to be a “search for the missing child” memoir, however, it became much more of a first-person minute by minute description of what led to the pregnancy, the dysfunctional home that the author grew up in and believed was somewhat responsible for circumstance leading to the pregnancy, and an in-depth review of her own personality. Very little of this book was devoted to the successful reunion with her first child, and that, in fact, seemed quite anti-climactic, which is why I gave this book only a 3 star. An intriguing start, but a bit disappointing throughout.