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Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
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Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption

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Like cowboys turning in the saddle to look at where they came from, Searching for the Castle documents the backtrail of author Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom’s adoption. It begins with her urgency as an eighteen-year-old woman initiating her search for her birth parents. Her recollection includes court petitions, letters, Division of Social Service documents, and other original documents usually buried behind the lock and key of the law.

In this memoir, she narrates the unearthing of her history and that of her family. Some of her discoveries are filled with pain, while others are joyful, including locating sisters, another brother, and eventually nieces and a nephew. A story of how one woman comes to terms with her identity, Searching for the Castle tells of real people doing the best they can to live and love in the often heartbreaking circumstances of life.

As Ohrstrom shares her journey to find her birth parents, she reveals her emotions throughout the process, discovering that her identity is self-created, but also that her being is governed, in part, by her ancestors and family lines. Searching for the Castle communicates the message that love creates families and that the family to which Ohrstrom belonged in foster care gave her a mother, father, and family filled with love and decency.

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateDec 10, 2013
ISBN9781491713082
Searching for the Castle: Backtrail of an Adoption
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Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom

Barbara Leigh Ohrstrom earned a master’s degree in professional writing from Emerson College and has published several articles. She is a project manager for integrated writing centers at a university in Massachusetts. Ohrstrom lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with family and two cats.

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