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Missing Mothers: A Memoir

Martha Birkett Bordwell

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Description:Six-year-old Martha’s world changes abruptly when her mother dies during childbirth. First she must adjust to having no mother and then, when her father remarries, to a second mother. But she never stops missing her first mother, the mother she struggles to remember. Buoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart, she hopefully anticipates pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. Infertility leads to another shift in plans. She and her husband enter the unfamiliar landscape of interracial and intercultural adoption. They adopt an infant son from South Korea and a daughter from Guatemala. Martha commits to providing her children with the childhood she didn’t have and to mothering them in ways she can’t remember being mothered. But as the lives of her children unfurl, their individual attitudes toward maternal loss don’t conform to Martha’s experience or expectations. During journeys to Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea to witness her son’s marriage and to Guatemala to vacation and volunteer with her daughter’s Mayan ancestors, Martha begins to uncover new understandings of the ties which bind and restrain her complicated family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Missing Mothers: A Memoir. To get started finding Missing Mothers: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 1733535306

Description: Six-year-old Martha’s world changes abruptly when her mother dies during childbirth. First she must adjust to having no mother and then, when her father remarries, to a second mother. But she never stops missing her first mother, the mother she struggles to remember. Buoyed by marriage to her college sweetheart, she hopefully anticipates pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood. Infertility leads to another shift in plans. She and her husband enter the unfamiliar landscape of interracial and intercultural adoption. They adopt an infant son from South Korea and a daughter from Guatemala. Martha commits to providing her children with the childhood she didn’t have and to mothering them in ways she can’t remember being mothered. But as the lives of her children unfurl, their individual attitudes toward maternal loss don’t conform to Martha’s experience or expectations. During journeys to Jeju Island off the coast of South Korea to witness her son’s marriage and to Guatemala to vacation and volunteer with her daughter’s Mayan ancestors, Martha begins to uncover new understandings of the ties which bind and restrain her complicated family.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Missing Mothers: A Memoir. To get started finding Missing Mothers: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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