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If You Could See Me Now
When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has reason
to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading,
half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman
who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks it's possible that
in the same process he will discover the answ...more
to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has been half dreading,
half hoping for this to happen for over thirty years. Just like the young woman
who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle of her life, he thinks it's possible that
in the same process he will discover the answ...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published
September 2nd 2011
by Unbridled Books
(first published April 1st 2006)
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The first chapter of this book totally sucked me in and I was a little disappointed that it didn't hold me like that for the rest of the book. Having said that it was a pretty gripping read, painting the woman, Adrienne, to be a selfish manipulative cow. Mewshaw may have had to write this book to finally get her out of his head 30 years after he'd stopped being her boyfriend.
A memoir incited by a woman in search of her birth mother, the author's role in her pre-natal history, and the odd trinity involved in the woman's journey towards her genetic identity. An odd tale made more so by the behaviors of the birth mother, a prominent figure in the State Department and Republican politics.
This is a very complicated but fascinating story. The author writes of his relationship with a woman who becomes pregnant with another man's child. The child (a daughter) is given up for adoption. The daughter contacts the author because the birth mother listed him on the birth certificate as her birth father. Got that so far? While this book is probably slanted because of the cruelty inflicted upon the author, I found the mother to be the perfect example of a narcissist. The birth mother ...more
While the story takes a twist that makes it more about the author's relationship to his past than finding birth parents, it does make for an interesting discussion starter on nature vs. nurture. I also ended the book feeling that this man had a lot more unresolved feelings about the birth mother than her child did.
I didn't really love the characters but thought the story and viewpoints interesting. I'm glad adoptions are more open today, although I respect the privacy of birth moms of yore.
This is not a typical reunion story. It has lots of twists, and it was actually disappointing in the end, even though the author seemed very much at peace with the way things turned out.
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