Sleep with angels
Subtitle: a memoir of abduction and identity
By: Lorene J. Humpal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: TitleTown Publishing, LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Green Bay, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780991069934
Subjects: Family; Illegitimate children; Biography; Missing children; Kidnapping; History; Teenage mothers; Birthmothers; Identity (Psychology); Case studies; Maternal Love; Depressions
Description: "Longing to return to beer halls and boys, a teenager gives birth to a daughter during the Great Depression, but shows the ultimate lack of maternal instinct when her baby goes missing. Though she claims that a nurse abducted the newborn, the infant and the anonymous nurse are never seen again. In Minneapolis, Lorene Hermanson is raised on discipline and Christian morality. But as a young married woman, Lorene's life collides with that of the missing baby when she learns her mother's secret: thirty years earlier, her mother saved Lorene from teenagers and a wealthy family who were determined to drown the baby. Heartbroken to learn her own birth story, Lorene struggles with the reality. The true story of one woman's most improbable start and her anguish of learning that life isn't what it appears to be, Sleep With Angels is a lifelong journey about the true beauty of maternal love, holding onto faith, and the precious gift of life. It is a rare cross between true crime and inspiration"--Publisher information.