The Missing Portrait

Pregnant at sixteen in the 1960s, Mary Frances McDonald was expected to bear her baby secretly and forget about it. Twenty-five years later, while trying to learn what became of her child, she discovers that The Vermont Home for Unwed Mothers she was driven to while blindfolded never existed. She returns to her Pennsylvania coal town to confront the driver, her mother.

But Joyce McDonald isn't talking.

The only thing Joyce appears to remember is nearly dying of shame over rumors that her daug...