Description
In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a Lost Bird, a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a Lost Bird, a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died.
Author: Yvette Melanson, Claire Safran
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/05/2000
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780380795536
ISBN10: 0380795531
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | Indigenous
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering