Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir by Janet Mason Ellerby PDF

By Janet Mason Ellerby

ISBN-10: 0815608896

ISBN-13: 9780815608899

Set in the course of the sexual revolution of the sixties, this relocating paintings recollects the decade's prodigious impression on a new release of american citizens that got here of age in the course of that transformative time of adjusting mores. Janet Mason Ellerby follows the crooked direction she took from a safe and privileged youth and early formative years to her unplanned being pregnant and banishment and to her daughter's delivery and adoption. She then delves into the complicated trip launched into over the subsequent thirty-five years, haunted by way of her first kid's reminiscence and trying to catch up on her loss. Ellerby crafts an autoethnography, bearing on and reflecting upon the alterations in middle-class American attitudes that educated the conservative suburbs of the fifties, during the political revolution of the sixties, seventies, and into at the present time. In so doing, she offers a private remark at the shifts in adoption tradition and describes the neglected heartbreak that many birthmothers endure.

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