In this vivid hybrid memoir

a lyrical collage of vignettes, vintage and contemporary correspondence and photos--the author illuminates her Post-World War II South Carolina birth, relinquishment, adoption, and childhood through the turbulent 1960s. She defines the barriers to her identity set by adoption law, her adoptive father''s Air Force Intelligence career, family transience, and religious fervency. At forty, she begins to gather fragments of her biological heritage in this heartfelt story of loss, a quest for identity, recovery of self, and reunion. Adoptee resources are included