Tree of Strangers

By BARBARA SUMNER and Barbara Sumner

Book Overview

'I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?

Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a gripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995135401
• ISBN13: 9780995135406
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Massey University
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.7" x 7.2"