Book description
Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one woman's search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Lauck's investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Found as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is the fourth of her well-written and reflective memoirs, but it had an additional aspect that really resonated with me.
Her experience as an adopted child who found her birth mother and her extensive research into the subject gave me an entirely new view of adoption and the importance of the biological bond between adoptees and their “first mothers.” Adoptees, birth mothers, adoptive parents, teachers, and social workers especially need to understand this perspective.
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