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Book Review of The Stolen Child

The Stolen Child
The Stolen Child
Author: Keith Donohue
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 9


Intriguing and heartbreaking novel about alienation and the need we all have to know who we are and where we came from. This resonated with me mostly as I thought of my daughter -- abandoned, and adopted from a foreign country, it's highly unlikely she will ever know her blood roots. Is she also a stolen child in some ways?
The novel didn't enrapture me the way some do; I never found myself having to stay up and read just one more chapter. But a worthy read nonetheless, and one not so easily forgotten.