Book Spotlight – Letting Go Again: A Birth Mother’s Tale of Adoption, Reunion, Separation and Growth
Written by Kimberly Marie Smythe
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“I had a letter from my daughter! Finally, I knew what I had longed to know for so long—Kelcey was real. And the fact that she had written to me gave me hope that someday, I might finally get to see her again.”
After, eighteen years of wondering about the daughter she had given birth to in a home for unwed mothers Kimberly Marie Smythe was about to meet her. It’s a moment that was once a staple of daytime television and now it was about to play out in real life. Letting Go Again: A Birth Mother’s Tale of Adoption, Reunion, Separation and Growth is a compelling true story revealing what happened after the dramatic reunion took place.
The book raises important questions about motherhood, the damaging effects of adoption, and our definition of family. Kim’s story challenges our perceptions about relationships, acceptance, surrender, and the true nature of love. She writes with courage and compassion as she tells the heartbreaking circumstances that led to her giving up her baby and how the happiness and completion she expected to feel when her first child was back in her life remained elusive.
Letting Go Again is a dramatic and complex story in which mother and daughter are challenged on almost every level by the harrowing choice Kim made to give up her child. Intense guilt, self-punishment, and the heavy burden of regret and loss color Kim’s actions. With extraordinary vulnerability she reveals how every cell in her body wants a loving connection with her daughter and the lengths she goes to make that happen. Sadly, blame, the years of separation and lack of shared history, thwart their efforts to heal their relationship.
As they both struggle with their complicated feelings it becomes clear that this is far from the stereotypical tale of redemption and reunion that Hollywood likes to portray. At times uncomfortable, at times poignant, Kim Smythe’s book, Letting Go Again is a searing account of her experience with adoption, reunion, separation and growth. It raises important questions about motherhood, the damaging effects of adoption, and our definition of family. In so doing it also challenges our perceptions about relationships, acceptance, surrender, and the true nature of love that finds the strength to let go… again.
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