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| Janet Mason Ellerby |
Hole In My Heart, published this week in the CUB Communicator.--jane
“Until I had answers, I would be stuck in a mire of remorse and recrimination...I could not move forward into my next act, until I found her.” Thus writes Lorraine Dusky in her compelling new memoir, Hole In My Heart: memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption. She continues: “For mothers like me, adoption has no closure as long as we do not know what happened to our children.”
“Until I had answers, I would be stuck in a mire of remorse and recrimination...I could not move forward into my next act, until I found her.” Thus writes Lorraine Dusky in her compelling new memoir, Hole In My Heart: memoir and report from the fault lines of adoption. She continues: “For mothers like me, adoption has no closure as long as we do not know what happened to our children.”
At the heart of Dusky’s memoir lie the
emotional and psychological wounds natural mothers must endure after capitulating
to adoption, whether open or closed. But closed adoption, Dusky argues
convincingly, is especially egregious. It is not only exploitive and cruel but
ultimately legally and morally wrong.
