Bibliograph

The Guild of the Infant Saviour, an adopted child's memory book, Megan Culhane Galbraith

Type

Label

The Guild of the Infant Saviour, an adopted child's memory book, Megan Culhane Galbraith

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Guild of the Infant Saviour

Responsibility statement

Megan Culhane Galbraith

Series statement

Machete

Sub title

an adopted child's memory book

Summary

"A hybrid memoir-in-essays with photographs that confronts the realities of growing up as an adoptee born before Roe v. Wade, searching for birth records, examining the Domecon baby experiments, and interrogating the idea of traumatic memory itself"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Talking points -- Pregnant pause -- Sin will find you out -- New York is beautiful STOP love, Elizabeth Caldwell STOP -- Find me here -- What to expect when you least expect it -- Hold me like a baby -- Happy together -- An adopted child's memory book: meeting my birth mother for the first time -- Consider the lilies -- The blank slate -- Other names for home -- Mother's Day -- O' father where art thou -- The girl, the garden, and the key -- Where there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek -- Losing it -- Water -- Confession -- Cardioversion -- Learning to mother myself -- Timepiece

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