cover image The Other Mother: A True Story

The Other Mother: A True Story

Carol Schaefer. Soho Press, $16 (295pp) ISBN 978-0-939149-75-9

A Literary Guild alternate in cloth, this wrenching account of a biological mother's reunion with the son whom her repressive family made her give up for adoption covers a wide range of adoption issues while testifying to the bonding power of motherhood. (Sept.)