Margaret E. Ward

Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.

Produktdetails

• Louann Atkins Temple Women & C
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780292729087
• ISBN-10: 0292729081
• Artikelnr.: 33726026

Autorenporträt

By Margaret E. Ward

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledgments
2. Prologue. Dalila's Hammock: San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2005
3. Part One. Our Story
* Chapter One. Adoption: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May–June 1983
* Chapter Two. Rediscovery: Massachusetts, August–December 1997
* Chapter Three. Reunion: Heredia, Costa Rica, December 1997
4. Part Two. Their Stories
* Chapter Four. Putting the Pieces Together, 1952–1992
* Interlude. Mi flor favorita/My Favorite Flower
* Chapter Five. Imagining Mila: New Hampshire, Summer 2007
* Interlude. La Guerra verdadera/The True War
* Chapter Six. The Disappeared Children of El Salvador
* Interlude. Perfect World
5. Epilogue. One Story
6. Appendix I. Abbreviations and Acronyms
7. Appendix II. Family Names
8. Notes
9. References and Suggested Reading