Found : A Memoir EPUB

Found is Jennifer Lauck's sequel to her New York Times bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found. More than one womans search for her biological parents, Found is a story of loss, adjustment, and survival. Laucks investigation into her own troubled past leads her to research that shows the profound trauma undergone by infants when theyre separated from their birth mothersa finding that provides a framework for her writing as well as her life.

Though Laucks story is centered around her search for her birth mother, its also about her quest to overcome her displacement, her desire to please and fit in, and her lack of a sense of selfall issues she attributes to having been adopted, and also to having lost her adoptive parents at the early age of nine. Throughout her thirties and early forties, she tries to overcome her struggles by becoming a mother and by pursuing a spiritual path she hopes will lead to wholeness, but she discovers that the elusive peace she has been seeking can only come through investigatingand coming to terms withher past.

Found is a powerful story of belonging, connectedness, and personal truths, in which Lauck lays bare the experience of a woman searching for her identity. Her assertions about mother and child will be a comfort to some in the adoptive community, and distressing to others; but her primary motive is to offer another perspective, and to give voice to the adoptive children who may be having trouble making sense of their own experience.