Searching for Abby
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (720 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073WG3YN6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 147 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An engaging and insightful story. 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 doubts and insecurities not knowing her family history and assuming this information would provide the answers she needs to understand herself. Throughout her experiences from adolescence to adulthood, . 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, surrounded by loving and funny and supportive people who make this story so wonderful to read. Abby goes on an emotional roller coaster that leaves the reader turning pages to learn what happens next. This is a. A page turner 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.Witnessing Abby's search for inner peace and fulfillment is a most enjoyable read. A must-have book for anyone longing for greater self-knowledge, a sense of identity, and for those wanting to come to terms
This search carries her on a whirlwind of emotions and in due course, the discovery of her birth family’s history. 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. 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. She earns a college degree, marries her college sweetheart, and lives with Matt and their three children in the house of her dreams. 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