Missing Mila, Finding Family : : An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War / / Margaret E. Ward.
In the spring of 1983, a North American couple who were hoping to adopt a child internationally received word that if they acted quickly, they could become the parents of a boy in an orphanage in Honduras. Layers of red tape dissolved as the American Embassy there smoothed the way for the adoption....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 8 b&w photos |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue:Dalila’s Hammock: San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2005
- Part One. Our Story
- One. Adoption: Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May– June 1983
- Two. Rediscovery: Massachusetts, August– December 1997
- Three. Reunion: Heredia, Costa Rica, December 1997
- Part Two. Their Stories
- Four. Putting the Pieces Together, 1952– 1992
- Interlude. Mi fl or favorita/My Favorite Flower
- Five. Imagining Mila: New Hampshire, Summer 2007
- Interlude. La Guerra verdadera/The True War
- Six. The Disappeared Children of El Salvador
- Interlude. My Perfect World
- Epilogue. One Story
- Appendix I. Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Appendix II. Family Names
- Notes
- References and Suggested Reading
- Index