My first mother finished reading my memoir

My first mother (in my memoir, I call her “Mom Cathy”) sent me an email. She has finished reading my memoir and especially liked the last two chapters. That means a lot to me. She is someone who likes living in the present. I think that is a good philosophy, but it is hard to …

Description of memoir

Ed Knight is an adoptee from the Baby Scoop Era of adoption, adopted as a baby in 1961, before there was such a thing as open adoption.  He describes a childhood beset with episodes of anxiety that bewildered his adoptive parents, who had adopted him and his sister after losing two babies (and later a …

I am an adoptee (adopted in 1961, during the Baby Scoop Era of adoption), who wrote a memoir entitled Congratulations On Finding Us, available on Apple Books.

https://books.apple.com/us/book/congratulations-on-finding-us/id1473059903