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    The Myth of Surrender: A Novel
    The Myth of Surrender: A Novel
    The Myth of Surrender: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Myth of Surrender: A Novel

    Written by Kelly O'Connor McNees

    Narrated by Carlotta Brentan

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    About this audiobook

    In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Home for the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family’s culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight of their coming decision—to keep or surrender their babies—becomes clear.



    Except, they soon realize, the decision has already been made for them. Holy Family, like many of the maternity homes where 1.5 million women "relinquished" their babies in what is now known as the Baby Scoop Era, is not interested in what the birth mothers want. In its zeal to make the babies "legitimate" in closed adoptions, Holy Family manipulates and bullies birth mothers, often coercing them to sign away their parental rights while still under the effects of anesthesia.



    What happens next, as their babies are born and they leave Holy Family behind, will force each woman to confront the depths and limits of motherhood and friendship, and fight to reclaim control over their own lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 1, 2022
    ISBN9781696607698
    The Myth of Surrender: A Novel
    Author

    Kelly O'Connor McNees

    Kelly O'Connor McNees is the critically acclaimed author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott, In Need of a Good Wife, and The Island of Doves. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

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