The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade -- Ann Fessler, Paperback Robert Gordon ’ released earlier this summer

’ released earlier this summer

Author: Ben Lerwill

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The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade -- Ann Fessler, Paperback Robert Gordon ’ released earlier this summer"A remarkably well researched and accomplished book." The New York Times Book Review "A wrenching, riveting book." Chicago Tribune In this deeply moving and myth shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. An adoptee who was herself surrendered