Booth Girls: Pregnancy, Adoption, and the Secrets We Kept

"In this powerful, beautifully written book, Kim Heikkila recounts the dramatic and painful story of her mother's first child, born when she was a young unmarried woman in the early 1960s. Weaving together her personal family story with her scholarly knowledge and insight, Heikkila uncovers the emotional and social toll experienced by unmarried mothers who bore not only the babies but the weight of stigma as the fathers walked away."—Elaine Tyler May, author of America and the Pill: A Histo...