Hole In My Heart: A Memoir and Report from the Fault Lines of Adoption;

Hole In My Heart is a memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption, starting with the is the compelling story of a mother separated from her child by adoption in the Sixties and the state-imposed secrecy that keeps them apart. Defying convention, Lorraine Dusky reunites with her daughter in the early Eighties when such reunions were rare, and in the process becomes a staunch advocate for reform of America's antiquated adoption system. Richly supplemented with 103 footnotes and sidebars. This follows Dusky's seminal memoir, Birthmark, the first to tell the story of relinquishing a child.