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Father and Son
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781497375345
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 27 2015
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In his early twenties, Riley Dorais has a good life. He lives in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin; has a good job in the post office; two loving parents; and a girlfriend, Cindy. All in all he's content, but one unanswered question continually nags at him, leaving him feeling incomplete.
Riley is adopted and has a deep emotional need to find and meet his birth patents. His adoptive parents, Frank and Jean, are hurt by their son's search, but for Riley this is about discovering his past and hopefully reconciling with the parents who gave him up.
Locating birth parents who don't want to be found is a difficult endeavor-one that leads to Riley hiding in a county records office in Minneapolis and stealing his own birth certificate. As the young man draws closer to his goal he comes to two conclusions: one of his birth parents is dead, and the other may not be willing to welcome a long-lost son.
Written by David Gidmark, Father and Son offers a touching, bittersweet examination of the drive many adoptees have to find their natural parents and the unpredictable nature of such reunions.
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