I wanted to share a new book with you called Abandoned At Birth by Janet Sherlund. I received a physical copy of the novel in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate link. If you click on the link and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
I’ve personally known three people who were adopted and heard them talk about being adopted through the years. Each one had different feelings about adoption and how they wanted to handle it. My brother in law Greg didn’t want to know anything about his biological parents and neither did his sister.
While my best friend Jo spent hours and hours looking for her family and getting upset more than once when a lead didn’t pan out. She had so many questions from why someone didn’t want her to I wonder if they had this or that because Jo had a lot of medical problems she had no, answers to.
My family isn’t in contact with either Greg or Joe at this time but if we had been I would have given each of them a copy of this book so they could see how others have handled being adopted and what happens when they find there mom.
About the book:
In Abandoned at Birth, Janet Sherlund explores the inherent need adopted children have for a sense of belonging and the pain and courage that is required to discover their true identity.
Adoption is often painted as a happy, inspirational act—a baby finds a family and lives happily ever after. But the truth is that adopted children experience displacement and rupture from their mother and that trauma can impact an individual for a lifetime. Adoption can lead to feelings of loss and grief not just for the adoptee, but for the biological and adoptive parents as well.
This startling fact comes vividly to life in Janet Sherlund’s heartbreaking memoir, Abandoned at Birth. In her literary debut, Janet Sherlund explores the complex issues so many adoptees and their parents grapple with, including the complicated emotions of rejection, loss, grief, denial, and shame.
Meet the Author: Janet Sherlund
Janet Sherlund raised her family and served on nonprofit boards in education, health and the cultural arts before writing her memoir, Abandoned at Birth. Her single most significant life event was being given up for adoption at birth.
Being adopted made her feel as though she was living a “borrowed life,” undermined her sense of trust and personal value, and impacted every decision she made. It also led to a lifelong quest to find her biological mother, with the hope of finally feeling a tether to this world, a sense of belonging and ultimately, herself.
Her memoir fulfills a lifelong dream of becoming a published author, as well as raising awareness about loss and grief in adoption, and why it takes more than love to survive that trauma.
A graduate of Colgate University, Sherlund lives on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts with Rick, her husband of 45 years. Abandoned at Birth is Sherlund’s first book.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
