Woman of Interest: A Memoir

There is a children’s book wherein a baby bird searches for his mother in all the wrong places. This book is a memoir of the author’s search for her birth mother.||During the 1980’s many babies of third world countries were sold into the United States fulfilling many couples desire for children whilst having little or no interest in how the babies were obtained. During this account, the author secures the help of a shady private detective whose cynical worldwide experience creates hope in Tracy that she can break through the bureaucratic morass and locate her birth mother. The story shifts in time and place and the story moves forward choppily while the author side notes her feelings and explores her unconventional friend group. ||The author is an acclaimed story teller, but this reader found the choppy nouveau style of writing confusing and hard to follow. The immersion of the author into her family of origin was her experience of confusing language obstacles and who’s who which left me feeling also confused. If that, in fact, was the author’s intent, it did succeed.