The Girls Who Went Away
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The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler
In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail.Ann Fessler has been a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design since 1993. The National Book Critics Circle named her book The Girls Who Went Away one of the best five nonfiction books of 2006, and it received the Ballard Book Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143038979 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143038974 |
| Title | The Girls Who Went Away |
| Author | Ann Fessler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2007-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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