Hole in My Heart

<p>In the days before Roe v. Wade an ambitious young journalist abandoned by her hometown beau leaves Michigan for a dream job on the city desk of a Rochester New York newspaper. Burned once she's eager for love but as the only Girl in the newsroom she's more concerned with finding allies and making friends.</p><p><br></p><p>When a new leading man appears she recognizes a kindred spirit. Soon her bylined stories claim front-page space; however an unplanned pregnancy forces her to shift her focus from deadlines to decisions.</p><p><br></p><p>With adoption on the horizon she pushes her man to make a commitment. Sadly he wants her but not their daughter. </p><p><br></p><p>Will Dusky ever find the little girl she longed to raise and if she does what will be the fallout from their years apart?</p><p><br></p><p>In <em>Hole in My Heart</em> the author uses her skills as a journalist to report on the social history and long-term consequences of adoption and family separation. If you like true stories with strong women narrators you'll love Lorraine Dusky's timely and heartrending memoir about motherhood identity and love.</p><p><br></p><p>Written by a leader in the movement to reform adoption practices and the first to come out of the era's closet of shame. With footnotes bibliography and index.</p>