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Like many adopted people, filmmaker Barbara Sumner yearned to know who hermother was. New Zealand's closed adoption laws made that almost impossibleand coloured her chaotic adolescence and adult life. When she finally tracked hermother down, a longed-for reunion ended in tragedy. This remarkable, moving,beautifully written memoir explores Sumner's conviction that everyone who losestheir mother suffers some degree of physiological damage. They are all graftedonto the tree of strangers.
Contents
Better call Maysie - 9Cold enough to cut your hair - 19God fights back - 27The Australia? - 35Another kind of memory - 43The changeling - 51And the dolphins walked on water - 59The opposite of Easter - 67You are an electromagnetic field - 75Abraham and Isaac went up a hill - 83Husband, father, painter, paperhanger - 91Wondering where the lions are - 99How many times can you change your name? - 107A cosmological view of time - 115Hear the cry for home - 123Oh so lucky - 131Your limbic brain on relinquishment - 139Sort of an orphan - 147Your phantom baby - 155Clarence Street forever - 163The snob - 171The cloth mummy - 179Spooky action at a distance - 187Game of statues - 195Land of light - 203All reasons, preferably special ones - 209You are your DNA - 219Notes about adoption - 225Notes - 233Further reading - 235Acknowledgements - 236About the author - 238
