Searching for Abby
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (709 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073WG3YN6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-22 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An engaging and insightful story. Campbell Barbara Taylor Blomquist has again written a sensitive novel that resonates on many levels. This intriguing story takes us on Abby's journey to find herself and secure the happiness, fulfillment and security she desperately seeks. As an adopted child, Abby has experienced . Excellent Read Palmer What a great book. Well written and thought provoking. You do not have to be adopted or have an adopted child to be fully engrossed in this twist-and-turn story, as the main character, Abby, finds out how to be happy in the life she has. Abby is a great character, surround. A page turner Fred H Whether adopted or not, all readers can identify with the deep life questions that Abby wrestles with throughout the book. As the plot unfolds, "Searching for Abby" takes many surprising twists and turns that keeps the reader constantly wondering what will happen next.Witn
Yet all along the way, uncertainties about her own identity and the nature of her birth family prevent her from feeling truly happy and satisfied. Abby’s discovery that their new neighbor, Kathryn, had worked for the adoption agency that placed Abby propels Abby on a search for the truth about her birth family. She earns a college degree, marries her college sweetheart, and lives with Matt and their three children in the house of her dreams. This search carries her on a whirlwind of emotions and in due course, the discovery of her birth family’s history. What new insights will be revealed? How will they change Abby? Will Searching for Abby finally lead to the peace and fulfillment that she seeks?. All, however, is not as it first appears. Searching for Abby is a tale of one woman’s quest for self-knowledge, for an identity.In Abby Lang’s case, this quest is complicated by the fact that she was adopted at four months of age and has no knowledge of her birth family.Abby leads a life that, by most accounts, would appear to be very fulfilling