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Book Details:
Book Title: No Names to Be Given
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +)
Genre: Vintage Women's Fiction
Publisher: Admission Press Inc
Release date: 08/2021
Format available for review: audiobook ( MP3 audio )
Tour Dates: Sep 20 to Oct 8
Content Rating: PG + M. No bad language, but mature
subjects like suicide and a rape scene. These are both mild and not explicit.
Fade to black kind of scenes.
"A gorgeous, thrilling, and important novel! These strong women will capture
your heart.” Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas.
“An insightful and sympathetic view offered into the lives of
those who were adopted and those who adopted them.” Pam Johnson, author of
Justice for Ella.
“A novel worthy of a Lifetime movie adaptation.” Jess
Hagemann, author of Headcheese.
“Readers can expect deep knowledge
of the world the characters inhabit.” Sara Kocek, author of
Promise Me Something.
“I found myself thinking about
Becca, Sandy, and Faith frequently as I went about my day—I was always
excited to sit down and find out what happened next.” Sarah Welch, author of
Austin Brown Dogs: The Shelter Dogs Who Rescue Us.
Today’s young women will not understand how our families made us feel shame
so intensely; we surrendered our first-born children to strangers. Faith Reynolds, No Names to Be Given
The widely anticipated debut novel by Julia Brewer Daily is a glimpse into the
lives of women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers. Although
this novel is a fictional account, it mirrors many of the adoption stories of
its era.
When three young unwed women meet at a maternity home hospital in New Orleans
in 1965, they are expected to relinquish their babies and return home as if
nothing transpired. Twenty-five years later, they are brought back together by
blackmail and their secrets threatened with exposure—all the way to the White
House.
Told from the three women’s perspectives in alternating chapters, we are
mesmerized by the societal pressures on women in the 1960s who found
themselves pregnant without marriage.
How that inconceivable act changed them forever is the story of
No Names To Be Given, a novel with southern voices, love exploited,
heartbreak and blackmail.
Guest Post
Adoption Past and
Present
While I am not an expert on the vast and complex topic of
adoption, I am one adoptee and have one opinion on the subject.
According to adoption statistics, there are 100 million in
the United States who have adoption in their immediate families. Many are adoptees
like me who were placed for adoption in maternity homes where unwed birth
mothers relinquished us.
From the 1930s to the 1980s, young women who became pregnant
out of wedlock were shamed by their parents and society into making an
emotionally devastating decision. In early years, women did not have access to
birth control and abortion was illegal. Many birth mothers were very young and
unable to care for their babies and wanted a more secure future for them.
Today, most women who become pregnant keep their babies with
or without family support. There are still maternity homes in existence, but
most offer financial assistance or child care to allow mothers to keep their
babies. State and Federal programs are available, as well.
My family believes in adoption. I was adopted as an infant.
One of my daughters adopted four older children and they are thriving in her
home. It is a very personal and courageous decision to choose to rear another’s
child as your own.
With lawsuits over Roe vs Wade and states deciding about
same sex adoptive parents and open/closed adoption records, this will continue
to be a hot button topic for years to come.
Meet the Author:
Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in
English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern
Mississippi.
She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor
at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of
the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts
college in Jackson, MS.
She was the founding director
of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic
neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.
As
the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans
from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their
stories to introduce them to the public.
Daily is an adopted child
from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her
birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well.
A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas,
with her husband Emmerson and Labrador Retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas
Star.
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NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN Book Tour Giveaway
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