"Giving Away Simone" is Jan Waldron's account of her compelling,
turbulent, and maddeningly original relationship with the daughter
she gave away. Jan's baby, Simone, was the fifth generation of
women in her family to be abandoned by their mothers. Determined to
fight this "undertow of conditioned exiting, an affliction of easy
farewell, " Jan reunited with her daughter, now renamed Rebecca,
when Rebecca was eleven. They spent the next thirteen years trying
to come to terms with each other and figure out what kind of roles
they were to play in each others' lives.
For birthmothers, there are no simple equations of loss and
gain. Each adoption is its own unique universe of complexities and
ambiguities. But often the most personal is also the most
universal, and there are truths to be found in every story. This
beautifully rendered, intensely personal memoir gives essential
shading to choices usually reduced to black and white. Waldron does
not dispense advice; she probes the emotional fallout, on both
sides of adoption, an area in which sedated platitudes have
presided for far too long."
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