Ithaka: a Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish date: 11/05/1998
Description:
One Friday morning, twenty-three-year-old Sarah Saffian was leaving for work when the phone rang. "Sarah?" a woman's voice asked. "My name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother". We hear many stories about adopted children who seek out their biological mother or father, but very few about the reverse situation: birth parents who seek out their children after years of separation. In this compelling memoir, Sarah Saffian explores the emotional roller coaster of her own unique adoption reunion, from that first phone call to her first meeting with her birth parents three years later.
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In touching, lyrical prose, Saffian draws on exchanged letters and her own journal to unveil a powerful story: the loss of her adoptive mother to cancer when she was only six; being raised by a loving adoptive father and stepmother; and the sudden reappearance of her birth mother and father.
Along the way Saffian probes important and universal issues: family and identity, love and abandonment, adoption and parenthood. What is a family? she asks. What are the lines between parental concern, control, and intrusion? How do we define this new kind of relationship? She finishes on a highly dramatic note: the emotionally charged reunion with her birth parents.
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