Ghost Child

<p>A young woman from a blue-collar background-aspiring and driven-spent over twenty years quietly wondering if the family who raised her was truly hers. At thirty-two she confirmed the unthinkable: she is the biological daughter of another entirely unknown family.</p><p></p><p>Her search unfolds like a page-turning mystery leading to an astonishing discovery-her biological grandfather was a U.S. diplomat and author photographed in the Oval Office with President Kennedy greeting Charles Lindbergh on the tarmac and meeting with Rosa Parks and international leaders. Her grandmother was a Cambridge-educated Mexican who described to her an exotic heritage of haciendas and aristocracy in the Yucatan. Her birth mother Katie a Bohemian expatriate in Cuernavaca Mexico gave birth to her in secret and lived childless ever since.</p><p></p><p>Raised by loving parents who didn't finish high school she now must reconcile her upbringing with an extraordinary legacy. <em>Ghost Child</em> is a sweeping story of identity belonging and the strange poignant bond between a daughter and the unforgettable birth mother she did not know.</p>