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Author Sumner, Barbara (Film company manager), author

Title Tree of strangers / Barbara Sumner
Published Auckland, New Zealand : Massey University Press, 2020
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Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Better call Maysie -- 2 Cold enough to cut your hair -- 3 God fights back -- 4 The Australia? -- 5 Another kind of memory -- 6 The changeling -- 7 And the dolphins walked on water -- 8 The opposite of Easter -- 9 You are an electromagnetic field -- 10 Abraham and Isaac went up a hill -- 11 Husband, father, painter, paperhanger -- 12 Wondering where the lions are -- 13 How many times can you change your name? -- 14 A cosmological view of time -- 15 Hear the cry for home -- 16 Oh so lucky -- 17 Your limbic brain on relinquishment
18 Sort of an orphan -- 19 Your phantom baby -- 20 Clarence Street forever -- 21 The snob -- 22 The cloth mummy -- 23 Spooky action at a distance -- 24 Game of statues -- 25 Land of light -- 26 All reasons, preferably special ones -- 27 You are your DNA -- Notes about adoption -- Notes -- Further reading -- Acknowledgements -- Author's note -- Copyright
Summary "Like many adopted children, filmmaker Barbara Sumner yearned to know who her mother was. New Zealand's closed adoption laws made that almost impossible and coloured her chaotic adolescence and adult life. When she finally tracked her mother down, a longed-for reunion ended in tragedy. This ... memoir explores Sumner's conviction that everyone who loses their mother suffers some degree of physiological damage. They are all grafted onto the tree of strangers"--Publisher information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Sumner, Barbara (Film company manager)
Identity (Psychology)
Adoptees -- New Zealand -- Psychology
Mothers and daughters -- New Zealand
Identity (Psychology)
Adoptees
Mothers and daughters
New Zealand
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780995137899
0995137897