Finding Mary Smith: A Memoir of Family Secrets, Gray Market Adoption, and the Miracle Reunion with My Mom

What if everything you knew about yourself turned out to be only half the story?

Comedian Al Isaacs grew up as an only child with loving parents, a gift for laughter, and a simple truth about his family until an innocent phone call from his mother's doctor just weeks before his father's passing exposed a decades-old family secret-he had been part of a gray-market adoption, hidden behind false paperwork and decades of silence.

Finding Mary Smith is a funny, raw, and deeply human memoir about a...