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Title Statement | Anne of Green Gables, my daughter, and me: what my favorite book taught me about grace, belonging & the orphan in us all : a memoir / Lorilee Craker. |
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Author | Craker, Lorilee |
Publication | Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale Momentum,[2015]©2015 |
Extent of Item | xv, 239 pages |
ISBN | 1496403436 (pbk.) 9781496403438 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2848038 |
Contents | All spirit and fire and dew: an introduction -- A couple of "severe mental jolts" -- "I love her best when she is asleep and better still when she is awake" -- Vanquishing Josie Pye -- A kindred spirit -- He shouldn't have called her "carrots", but oh, that Gilbert Blythe! -- Finding Clara Macneill -- Bereft, left alone, and left (two birth mothers and daughters) -- Dispatches from the land of morning calm -- "Lawful heart, did anyone ever see such freckles?" -- I love my adopted child biologically -- Reunion vignettes -- Raspberry cordial and redemption in a bottle of Ipecac syrup -- Finding Walter Shirley -- Dear Tom -- (He did not say dear) Lorilee -- Twenty pounds of brown sugar and a garden rake -- A bend in the road. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237). |
Summary | Lorilee Craker, whose adopted daughter asks her "What's an orphan?" turns to Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic book Anne of Green Gables to find answers to what it means to belong. |
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By Topic | Adopted children |
Adoptees--Biography | |
Families | |
By Name | Craker, Lorilee--Family |
Montgomery, L. M.(Lucy Maud),1874-1942.Anne of Green Gables | |
Shirley, Anne |