Tree of Strangers (Massey University Press memoirs) - Hardcover

Barbara Sumner

 
9780995135406: Tree of Strangers (Massey University Press memoirs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0995135401 ISBN 13: 9780995135406
Publisher: Massey University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Like many adopted people, filmmaker Barbara Sumner yearned to know who her mother was. New Zealand's closed adoption laws made that almost impossible and coloured her chaotic adolescence and adult life. When she finally tracked her mother down, a longed-for reunion ended in tragedy. This remarkable, moving, beautifully written memoir explores Sumner's conviction that everyone who loses their mother suffers some degree of physiological damage. They are all grafted onto the tree of strangers.

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About the Author

Barbara Sumner has worked in film and journalism, and manages Cloud South Pictures with her husband, Tom Burstyn. In 2009 This Way of Life, their feature documentary about a family living simply in the Ruahine Ranges, won the Berlinale Generation Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, was shortlisted for an Oscar, and won awards at film festivals around the world. In 2020 Barbara is a graduate of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. She lives in Napier. https://www.barbarasumner.nz/

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Publisher
Massey University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0995135401
ISBN 13 
9780995135406
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
256