Marilyn Churley‘s powerful memoir, turning on the life-changing experience of giving up her son for adoption in the late 60s, is unique. Not everyone brought up in a Newfoundland log cabin goes on to become an Ontario cabinet minister with the power to determine how adoption records are managed. But other aspects of her story are wholly familiar to women of her era: no access to birth control, risky abortion options, judgment from health workers for being unmarried and pregnant. Churley reads from Shameless: The Fight For Adoption Disclosure And The Search For My Son ($26.95, Between the Lines) at the Beaches Library on Wednesday (June 10). See Readings.
