Waiting to Forget

by Margaret Moorman

The author of My Sister's Keeper describes how her second pregnancy at age forty led to a confrontation with her decision to give up a child for adoption some twenty-five years earlier, explaining how the past has affected her life and the experience of being a pregnant teenager before legal abortion.

Genres: Adoption, Memoir, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published August 1, 1996

About the author

Margaret Moorman is a writer and painter known for books on complex family relationships. She authored My Sister's Keeper and children's books, contributes to ARTnews and Newsday, and lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

Reviews

[Liz Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Waiting to Forget” explores adoption from the point of view of a birth mother who surrendered her child in 1965, at the age of 16, and whose life was severely affected by that choice. I appreciated Moorman’s honesty as she describes the circuitous path on which her emotions take her, as well as her empathy for the other players in the adoption triad. The book was published in the mid-1990s and while some laws have changed since then, many have not.

[Lee Savino · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an adoptee, I had high hopes for this book.
It started out by keeping my attention, but then got really boring and drawn out.
Would not recommend

[Nancy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found the author rather annoying at times. I know she was only 16 when she gave birth to her son. At one point she said she thought she would have gotten over it better, if she could have had an abortion. My feelings are, that either choice will leave a woman with feelings, that last a life time. I don't think there is an easy answer to an unwanted pregnancy. I met a young woman outside of my son's school, who was with a group advocating against abortion. I talked with her, and she told me she was forced to have an abortion, by her mother, and she didn't want anyone else to go through that horrible experience.

[Sallyk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good but too drawn out.