num_pages: 240
description: '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 Id 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 ripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.
language: English
title: Tree of Strangers
publisher: Massey University Press