Surrender - Macdonald, Marylee
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Her young life changed in an instant. Now she shares her story with the child she gave away. Adopted at birth, Marylee's parents told her she was a "chosen child." She tried her hardest to make them proud, but her parents' divorce sent her into the comforting arms of a handsome Catholic boy. Convinced that he was her Romeo and she a modern-day Juliet, she surrendered to passion. Unfortunately, it was 1961. Pregnant girls were sent away, and their babies given up for adoption. Nature vs. nurture: Which plays a greater role in who we become? The family we were raised in, or the parents we never…mehr

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Her young life changed in an instant. Now she shares her story with the child she gave away. Adopted at birth, Marylee's parents told her she was a "chosen child." She tried her hardest to make them proud, but her parents' divorce sent her into the comforting arms of a handsome Catholic boy. Convinced that he was her Romeo and she a modern-day Juliet, she surrendered to passion. Unfortunately, it was 1961. Pregnant girls were sent away, and their babies given up for adoption. Nature vs. nurture: Which plays a greater role in who we become? The family we were raised in, or the parents we never knew? In telling her adult son the story of his birth, can the narrator find compassion for her own wounded inner child? If you like truthful accounts laced with the passion of youth and the wisdom of age, read Marylee MacDonald's funny and poignant memoir about how we grow up, grow old, and learn to accept ourselves.
Autorenporträt
Marylee MacDonald is the author of Surrender, Bonds of Love and Blood, Body Language, The Rug Bazaar, and The Big Book of Small Presses and Independent Publishers. Her novels, memoirs, and short stories have won the Wishing Shelf Book Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from Readers' Favorites International Book Awards, the Jeanne M. Leiby Chapbook Award, the Ron Rash Award, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and many more. She has taught writing and editing for the Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University and been a Writer in Residence for the City of Mesa Public Libraries.