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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts her experiences as a pregnant teenager in a government-run facility for delinquent teenage girls, describing the bonds she formed with the other girls and how the experience changed how she sees the world.
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 p.
Language
English
Description
Kim Heikkila's mother had a secret: in 1961, two years before her marriage, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents' attic bedroom, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul, and surrendered her for adoption. More than 30 years later, Kim's older sister reunited with her birth family. Kim's mother had written about her experiences, but after she died,...