Coming Apart Together: fragments from an adoption

Hipchen, Emily

Published by The Literate Chigger Press, 2005

About this Item

Signed at the half-title by the author of this fine memoir of adoption, also a fine autobiography, a quest for identity and self-worth. From a publisher's blurb, "This memoir tells the story of two teenagers of different classes and ethnic backgrounds who meet by chance, fall in love, find their parents will not allow them to marry, and go off to college only to discover that they are going to have a child. She is spirited away to a home for unwed mothers, gives birth, signs the relinquishment papers, goes home. In four years, when they are old enough to marry despite their parents, they do. In the next twenty-five years, they have five more children together. Their first child, adopted at three months old, grows up in the knowledge of being different because she is adopted, and as an adult begins the search when her father dies. She discontinues it out of fear, then begins it again in 1998. In the same month, July of 1998, they all find the New York State adoption registry and are reunited in February of 1999. This reunion is the impetus of the story, the cataclysm that begins it and ends it both." 208 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coming Apart Together: fragments from an adoption
• Publisher: The Literate Chigger Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author
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