Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 1, 1993 - Family & Relationships - 224 pages
Like Passages, this  groundbreaking book uses the poignant, powerful voices of  adoptees and adoptive parents to explore the  experience of adoption and its lifelong effects. A major  work, filled with astute analysis and moving  truths.

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Prologue
1
The Context of Adoption
7
Infacy The First Year of Life
25
Copyright

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Robin Marantz Henig is the author of six books, including "A Dancing Matrix: How Science Confronts Emerging Viruses". She routinely writes about science & medicine for such publications as the "New York Times Magazine" & "USA Today". She lives in Maryland.

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