Tree of Strangers
eBook - ePub

Tree of Strangers

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Tree of Strangers

About this book

'I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?

Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a gripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Better call Maysie
  6. 2 Cold enough to cut your hair
  7. 3 God fights back
  8. 4 The Australia?
  9. 5 Another kind of memory
  10. 6 The changeling
  11. 7 And the dolphins walked on water
  12. 8 The opposite of Easter
  13. 9 You are an electromagnetic field
  14. 10 Abraham and Isaac went up a hill
  15. 11 Husband, father, painter, paperhanger
  16. 12 Wondering where the lions are
  17. 13 How many times can you change your name?
  18. 14 A cosmological view of time
  19. 15 Hear the cry for home
  20. 16 Oh so lucky
  21. 17 Your limbic brain on relinquishment
  22. 18 Sort of an orphan
  23. 19 Your phantom baby
  24. 20 Clarence Street forever
  25. 21 The snob
  26. 22 The cloth mummy
  27. 23 Spooky action at a distance
  28. 24 Game of statues
  29. 25 Land of light
  30. 26 All reasons, preferably special ones
  31. 27 You are your DNA
  32. Notes about adoption
  33. Notes
  34. Further reading
  35. Acknowledgements
  36. Author’s note
  37. Copyright