A myth shattering look at adoption
Fessler shares her own personal view as an adoptee, along with 100 other women.
Her book "The Girls Who Went Away" is the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade.
Fessler also shares in the interview her recent contact with her own bith mother, and the secrets that often come with giving up your child for adoption.
"The Girls Who Went Away" is about bringing to light the untold story of the million and half women who surrendered children for adoption., and the pressure they were under.
