waiting to forget
Described in the New York Times Book Review as uniuely enlightening Waiting to Forget is a mother's story of coming to terms with the child she gave up for adoption over thirty years ago In 1965 Margaret Moorman was unmarried pregnant and still in high school Forced by societal pressures to give her baby up she suffered emotional trauma both before and for years after the birth At forty she gave birth to a daughter and found herself terrified by the possibility of losing her younger child a fear she can now trace back to her uncertain decision to give up her sonMoorman discusses both her own complicated feelings of loss and motherhood and the issue of adoption from the often overlooked point of view of a birth parent