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Zusatztext In this moving story , Cowan painfully recalls the effect her mother's volatility had on her childhood in California, and how it led to estrangement in adulthood as her legal career developed and she left her mother behind. Yet, despite their broken relationship, upon Eileen's death Cowan found herself drawn to discovering her mother's past: a history that had remained entirely hidden to her until she read Eileen's memoir, which she had previously refused to open . . . This is a beautifully written and tender account of how a daughter came to a late understanding of her mother, and how she began to heal the wounds of all that had gone before Informationen zum Autor For more than two decades, lawyer Justine Cowan has advocated for the voiceless, challenging some of America's most powerful interests exposing wrongdoing in governments and corporations at all levels. The cases she has been involved in have been reported in The New York Times , Vanity Fair , CNN , Politico, Slate, The Hill and almost all other major news outlets. Justine received her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and her law degree with honors from Duke Law School where she was on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal . http://www.justinecowan.com/ Klappentext 'Part investigative journalism, part emotional excavation, this breathtaking and heartbreaking book tells the story of a daughter's need to understand her difficult mother. Both moving and artful, rewarding its readers page after page' Adrienne Brodeur, bestselling author of Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret and Me 'The gripping true story of a daughter's quest to find the truth about her mother's origins. As she uncovers an increasingly dramatic tale of abuse, escape and recovery, Justine Cowan must grapple with her complex feelings about this woman who, as she comes to learn, never had a real childhood of her own. A riveting, heartbreaking and ultimately healing journey of discovery' Christina Baker Kline, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Orphan Train Zusammenfassung A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother....
