What They Never Told Us
True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed
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"What they never told us tells the stories of ordinary people who made extraordinary, life-changing discoveries about their parentage and/ or race and ethnicity that fractured their identities. The book asks the big questions: Who are we? And what is family? Blending social history and personal narrative, each story delves into the devastating psychological trauma of uncovering a hidden family secret with all the twists and turns of a mystery novel from how the discovery was made; to why it was kept a secret; to the arduous, sometimes disappointing, quest to find the biological parent or paren...
"What they never told us tells the stories of ordinary people who made extraordinary, life-changing discoveries about their parentage and/ or race and ethnicity that fractured their identities. The book asks the big questions: Who are we? And what is family? Blending social history and personal narrative, each story delves into the devastating psychological trauma of uncovering a hidden family secret with all the twists and turns of a mystery novel from how the discovery was made; to why it was kept a secret; to the arduous, sometimes disappointing, quest to find the biological parent or parents. To fully understand the secrecy surrounding these family secrets, the book examines pre-WWII and post-WWII attitudes towards infertility, adoption, donor conception, race and racial passing, and unmarried pregnant woman."--Publisher description.
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