Abandonment

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me, by Paul Joseph Fronczak and Alex Tresniowski  Paul Fronczak learned as an adult that he’d been kidnapped from a Chicago hospital after his birth. A DNA test revealed that he’s not actually Paul Fronczak. This is the story of his attempt to learn his true identity and find the man he believed himself to be.

Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, A Memoir, by Paula McLain  This 2013 memoir recalls 14 years the author and her two sisters spent in one foster home after another after having been abandoned by their parents. 

Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family, by Anika Fajardo  Anika Fajardo, who was raised by her mother in Minnesota, travels to Columbia to learn about the father who was a stranger. 

“Tiny Baby Girl Found in the Woods”: A Memoir, by Mary Ellen Cordell Donat with Mary Ellen Test Suey The author explores the shocking mystery of what happened to her after her birth in 1955. Being An Abandoned Child  Brendan Maquire’s TED Talk about having been left in a mall with his three brothers and sisters when he was four years old.