Something about being a birth mother compels up to tell our
stories. While many tell their stories in memoirs, first mother Paula Friedman has woven her
birth mother experience into a piece of fiction; adoption is the vehicle
for universal themes of acquiescence and conviction, love and loss, separation and reconciliation.
The Rescuer’s Path begins in Nixon-era Washington DC. Fifteen year old Malca Bernovski
rides a horse through a park and discovers a severely wounded fugitive—antiwar
leader Gavin Hareen, prime suspect in the bombing of an Army truck which killed
three people.
