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Finished up this one for family book club this Sunday. It was Mom‘s choice. I am not quite sure how to rate it. It is between a pick and a so-so for me. I guess I will round up.

A couple have their child stolen from them and then are convinced to accept as their own a two year old “foundling”. Advance decades this “foundling”, now a father himself, pursues DNA studies. He discovers his real family and their deep dysfunction. His opportunity of adoption saved him the dark fates if his surviving siblings. A gripping read.

This baby was kidnapped (the day after he was born) from his mother‘s arms by a woman impersonating a nurse. The author was abandoned as a toddler and presented to the parents of kidnapped baby by the FBI. They raised him as their own, but he always felt “alien”. What a mystery! DNA 🧬 to the rescue and Paul found some of his biological kin. And the mystery deepens...I had to google his blog to see if there have been more developments. 3/5🧬s

After hugely anticipating this book, sadly I couldn't gel with it.
I found it too removed from the actual emotions that it surely invoked.
However, truly fascinating account of his life.

On a yoga retreat in Italy and taking advantage of an early wake up :)

Wowzers! Icelandic tradition from a very dear friend.
Books and chocolate and vegan Bailey drink.

Got this for $2 at an estate sale today...I'm excited to read it!

Read this in one sitting. Interesting and complex - the best parts were following the twisty genetic paths.

Have you heard about this book?? OMG so fascinating! It's kind of a true crime memoir about a guy who learns that when he was a baby he was kidnapped, then two years later found abandoned and is reunited to his family.

The Foundling tells the incredible and inspiring true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered via a DNA test that he was not who he thought he was—and set out to solve two fifty-year-old mysteries at once. Along the way he upturned the genealogy industry, unearthed his family‘s deepest secrets, and broke open the second longest cold-case in US history, all in a desperate bid to find out who he really is. #truecrime #missingperson