ASIN: B00CCREZW8
Publisher: Thomas W. Muldary, Ph.D.
Pages: 345
Much has been written about adoption search and reunion, but less is known or written about the post-reunion experience. For adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, and everyone involved, questions remain: What happens after the initial reunion? Where do we go from here? What can we expect from ourselves and one another? What do we have in common? How do we create a shared history? Do relationships grow or even survive? In his first book, Finding Dolores: An Adoptee's Mid-Life Search for the beginning, the author relates the riveting and heartwarming story of his tireless two-year search for his family of origin. Though he learned that his birth mother was deceased and that his birth father wanted nothing to do with him, he also discovered that he had seven siblings who never knew he existed, but who embraced him as their brother. Following their extraordinary first reunion, they set ...
