When Michael Mewshaw receives a call from a stranger who says she has
reason to believe he is her biological father, Mewshaw realizes he has
been half dreading, half hoping for this to happen for over 30 years.
Just like the young woman who wants to find the last piece to the puzzle
of her life, he hopes to answer questions that have plagued him for
decades. But first he has to make sure that she is who she claims to be.
In this fascinating memoir, Mewhsaw confronts his own past, the chaos of
his family, and complicated memories of the woman he once loved. His
unusual role in the baby's birth, her adoption, and, now, her search for
her biological parents sets the stage for a revealing personal odyssey
that offers a quest for identity and a journey of discovery, an
obsession with recapturing the past and righting old wrongs, the
constant potential for disappointment balanced against the possibility
of redemption. As he finds his old flame and her old lover,
rediscovering who he was and who he has become, he finds his life
enriched in the process.