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She Turned Her Head Away

She Turned Her Head Away


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Patricia Moffat was not an abused child, nor was she separated at a young age from her original culture. Yet, growing up in the closed adoption system in northern California, Patricia always felt a yawning gap at the beginning of her life, and a sense of loss and sadness. She yearned to know who her birthmother was, and why she had given her away. In her twenties, after an abortion and the births of her two children, which pulled her back emotionally to her beginnings, she became filled with determination to find her original family. In the late 1970s, there was no internet to help, or genetic testing companies, or even adoption registries where today birthparents and adoptees can often connect quickly. Patricia's search was done by old-fashioned sleuthing with just a few clues, including her birthmother's last name, to go on. Her successful search and reunion brought happiness as well as difficulties. The reunion with her birthmother and family was joyous, but Patricia's adoptive mother felt threatened by the sudden appearance of another mother in their lives. She Turned Her Head Away is a memoir that speaks powerfully of the emotions commonly felt by adopted children and adult adoptees, of questions of identity, and experiences of family and belonging. It is especially relevant today, as commercial genetic testing companies can reveal family secrets and uncover emotions that may have been buried for years. She Turned Her Head Away is a heart-stopping story that is hard to put down.
About the Author: Patricia Moffat is Pat Ohlendorf-Moffat, an award-winning magazine journalist in Canada for many years, writing for Canadian publications such as Chatelaine, Maclean's, Canadian Business, the Globe and Mail, Toronto magazine, among others, and Discover magazine in the U.S. Since 2003, she has collaborated with her husband, physicist John Moffat, in writing popular physics books. She was adopted, grew up in northern California, and in 1977 searched for and found her birthmother and family in the Seattle area. Patricia, who moved to Toronto in 1971, began writing a memoir of her adoption and reunion in 1978. She Turned Her Head Away is this life's work.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780921332640
  • Publisher: Political Animal Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Crowsnest Books
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 314
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 702 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0921332645
  • Publisher Date: 09 Nov 2020
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: An Adoption Memoir
  • Width: 152 mm


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