"While applying for a passport, ... Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery: she had a secret half-brother. Her mother told Mary Carter that the abandoned boy was a 'youthful mistake' from an encounter with a married man. Nine years later, Mary Carter tracked Ronnie down at the barbershop where he worked and found a near-broken man--someone kind and happy to meet her, but someone deeply and irreversibly damaged by a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of an uncaring system. Digging deep into her family's lives for ...
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"While applying for a passport, ... Mary Carter Bishop made a shocking discovery: she had a secret half-brother. Her mother told Mary Carter that the abandoned boy was a 'youthful mistake' from an encounter with a married man. Nine years later, Mary Carter tracked Ronnie down at the barbershop where he worked and found a near-broken man--someone kind and happy to meet her, but someone deeply and irreversibly damaged by a life of neglect and abuse at the hands of an uncaring system. Digging deep into her family's lives for understanding, Mary Carter unfolds a sweeping narrative of religious intolerance, poverty, fear, ambition, class, and social expectations"--Adapted from book jacket.
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