| Beyond the Third Door: Based on a True Story Volume 1 Contributor(s): Heckinger, Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 1543973787 ISBN-13: 9781543973785 Publisher: Bookbaby OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Drama | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: My book has three narrators: my birth mother, my adopted mother, and myself. It is the tale of two mothers and their connection to one child. One mother was shamed because she had a child and the other because she couldn't. I am one of 3,500 Greek orphans adopted to the U.S. in the 1950s. Conceived in an act of violence, I was born to an unwed mother who was exiled from her island home for 44 years. Homeless and seven months pregnant in a large mainland city, she could not care for me and lost me to foreign adoption. Raised in California, I returned to Greece when I was 30 where, through a series of life-changing events, I reconnected with my birth mother. Finally, as the orphaned child, I tell my story. Based on documents and oral histories given by both mothers, and my experiences, it is a tale so miraculous it reads like fiction. |
