false 2103294 1 Set during the sexual revolution of the sixties, this moving work recalls the decade's prodigious effect on a generation of Americans that came of age during that transformative time of changing mores. Janet Mason Ellerby follows the crooked path she took from a protected and privileged childhood and early adolescence to her unplanned pregnancy and banishment and to her daughter's birth and adoption. She then delves into the complex journey embarked on over the next thirty-five years, haunted by her first child's memory and attempting to compensate for her loss. <P> Ellerby crafts an autoethnography, relating and reflecting upon the changes in middle-class American attitudes that informed the conservative suburbs of the fifties, through the political revolution of the sixties, seventies, and into today. In so doing, she provides a personal commentary on the shifts in adoption culture and describes the overlooked heartbreak that many birthmothers endure. 2108677 30 9 2007 Following the Tambourine Man: A Birthmother's Memoir (Writing American Women) total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 11 2 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 20 20:05:37 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 04 18:57:30 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat May 03 15:14:16 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 01 07:03:00 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 06:06:18 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 06:06:18 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 07:43:37 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 07:43:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Dec 04 05:33:23 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 05:33:26 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Dec 03 13:56:36 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 13:56:36 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 02 07:55:29 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 07:55:29 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Sep 08 19:22:54 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 19:22:54 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jan 10 20:40:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 20:41:11 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jan 07 16:23:41 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 16:23:41 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 29 13:45:45 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 13:45:51 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2103294