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1 online resource |
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National Library of New Zealand archived copy text file EPUB |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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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 |
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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. |
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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand in EPUB. Nz |
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Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title may not be functional. Nz |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sumner, Barbara (Film company manager)
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Adoptees -- New Zealand -- Psychology.
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Adoptees. |
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New Zealand. |
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Psychology. |
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Mothers and daughters -- New Zealand.
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Mothers and daughters. |
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tree of strangers 9780995135406 |
| ISBN |
9780995137899 epub |
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0995137897 |
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9780995135406 hardback |
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0995135401 |
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