{"product_id":"stone-walls-an-ugly-duckling-story-an-adoptees-search-for-identity-family-and-understanding-9781038349811","title":"Stone Walls: An Ugly Duckling Story: An adoptee's search for identity, \"family,\" and understanding","description":"Sandra Patricia grew up unwanted and unloved, only to become pregnant and give a daughter up for adoption. A few months later, Sandra is horrified to discover that she was adopted specifically to keep her adoptive parents from divorcing. Their unhappy and stressful marriage and family life fed years of depression, stress in Sandra's own marriage, and alcoholism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Sandra flees her husband and children and subsequently crashes her car, she is forced to face her addiction. As her life and marriage turn around through sobriety, she rebuilds her life, pursuing a university education and searching both for her own birth family and the daughter she gave up. Sandra's thirty-five-year search reveals power struggles with social service agencies, an outdated and barbaric social service system-both within Manitoba and throughout Canada-and a web of secrets, lies, and deception. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStone Walls relates to all adoptees and birth families who search for connection and are denied relationships due to the outdated and cruel laws and practices of social service agencies and their personnel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038349811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d","brand":"Sandra Patricia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52034390818997,"sku":"9781038349811","price":23.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ee3379ea-514c-483e-a704-d4ed8d1631d2.jpg?v=1763593996","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stone-walls-an-ugly-duckling-story-an-adoptees-search-for-identity-family-and-understanding-9781038349811","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}