Giving Away Simone: A Memoir, by Jan Waldron (TPB, 1997, $2)
"Waldron tells of her compelling, turbulent and maddening original relationship with the daughter she gave away. Jan's baby, Simone, was the 5th generation of women in her family to be abandoned by their mothers. Determined to fight this 'undertow of conditioned exiting, an affliction of easy farewells,' Jan reunites with her daughter, now renamed Rebecca, when Rebecca was 11. They spent the next 13 years trying to come to terms with each other..."
This book can be found on the new non-fiction table, avail. 9/17.
