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"Like many stories of survival, Leigh's includes some powerful moments, and she is a sympathetic narrator...it's likely to offer welcome comfort to readers who endured childhood traumas themselves."
-Publisher Weekly

"One doesn't have to have a family mystery--in this case a lost sister--to become absorbed and moved by the beautiful book written by Sandra Leigh. I stayed up late, caught up in this story of a West Virginia girl's search for a lost baby--and her own truest self."
-Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements; A Place in the Country; Beautiful Bodies; and Dreams of Rescue.

"Leigh grew up in a poor, unstable, peripatetic family that traveled back and forth between California and West Virginia while pursuing one failed enterprise after another, trying to hold together through the father's drinking and occasional violence. She captures the fear of the children who live with physical abuse, the strategies for keeping peace, and the plotting of escape routes once a fight breaks out.

In this searing memoir, Leigh recalls that when she was eight years old, her pregnant mother left to give birth to a fourth child but returned three weeks later with no baby. Told the baby died, Leigh is haunted by the conviction that her sister is actually alive. The family separated for a while - each of the children farmed out to relatives - and later reunited, but a breach continued, as though something was missing. As she comes of age, Leigh painfully realizes that her family has kept secrets and told lies, but she also learns to respect her mother's decision as well as her own right to know the truth."
- Anna Clifford, Subsidiary Rights Manager
The Booklist/Globe Pequot Press

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