Permanent Home: A Memoir

By Mary Ellen Gambutti

A childhood remembered in fragments. A life spent searching for the meaning of home.

Permanent Home: A Memoir looks back on an adopted childhood shaped by family, frequent moves, and life as an Air Force daughter in the 1950s and '60s. From Chiclets in Columbus Circle and childhood years in Japan to grandparents, the family home, gardens, and the dislocations of military life, she follows the memories that endured.
The story moves into adulthood through marriage and motherhood, a vocation in gardening, a life-altering health crisis, and the search for the family and history from which she had been separated in infancy.
Told in lyrical vignettes and personal essays, Permanent Home is an intimate memoir of adoption, memory, identity, resilience, and the enduring human need to know where-and to whom-we belong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941066321
• ISBN13: 9781941066324
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Ibis & Hibiscus Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"