WARD: A Memoir of Ghosts, Grandmothers, and Little Girls Who Disappear

by Kathleen Spada

574 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 10, 2026

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[Kathleen Spada · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my forties, I learned my mother had been sold as a child and raised under a false identity. Everything I thought I knew about her and the family I came from was a lie. I went looking for the grandmother I'd never met but somehow always knew was missing. What I found instead was my mother and the emotional connection I'd always yearned for, just as dementia began taking her away.