The Girls Who Went Away, (Paperback)

from Angelic55blonde

This is an amazing book. Some of the stories are so heartwrenching it actually made me cry while I was reading it. I was highly impressed with this book. It focuses on an issue that is not talked about much. The girls who got pregnant before abortion was legalized had very little options and many...

from DetailMuse

“This never happened.” Don Draper says that all the time on Mad Men, and in fact he says it to a character who's in the midst of a breakdown after an unwed pregnancy. Those script writers are good: although they didn't invent the line, it is fiction: it did happen, and the women never forget. S...

from jacketscoversread

On a complete accident I managed to stumble across The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade on GoodReads while typing in another title and I have found a new love, which is surprising because I rarely, if ever, re...

from coppers

Ann Fessler's book chronicles the lives of young, single women who gave up their children for adoption in the 1950s and 60s. That what was allowed to happen to them was still going on in my lifetime is shocking to me. No sex education, no assistance, no rights, no choice. Just a little empathy wo...

from Citizenjoyce

Ann Fessler is an adopted daughter of an adopted daughter, and her art is photography, not creative writing; so most of this excellent book consists of stories from women, in their own words of the suffering they have experienced. She ties the stories together and places them in historical contex...