Product Description
On the Otherside of Shame New Ed PB
Author: Joanne Jowell
Format: Paperback
In June 1961, seventeen-year-old Lynette Zinn, Jewish and unmarried, is forced by her father to give birth in secret and surrender her baby for adoption, the scandal never to be spoken of again. Forty years later, Antony Egnal, a physician in Seattle, adopts a child of his own, and the experience prompts him to search for his biological parents, a search that eventually leads him to his birth mother.
This non-fiction account traces the parallel journeys of mother and son, separated by shielded identities and a conservative era yet linked by a string of uncanny coincidences. It is a story about the power of shame and the strength of forgiveness, told through the eyes of those most deeply affected.
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