In her memoir, Finding Hope, Hope O. Baker takes the reader with her as she revisits her experience of unplanned pregnancy, the choice to place her child for adoption, and the consequences that follow. Hope pulls no punches, offering the reader an intimate window into her life and brings to light the often hidden or ignored perspective of a birth parent.
Finding Hope is a fast read, and as a birthmother myself, I would recommend it to everyone, but especially anyone connected to adoption. The general public would benefit from reading the real-life experience of an often obscured and shunned member of the adoption triad. For birth parents, reading this book is like meeting someone for the first time who gets you from the start. For adoptive parents and hopeful adoptive parents, it offers a version of the truth not painted with rainbows and unicorns. And, for adoptees, whether in or out of the fog, it presents one behind-the-scenes-version of the most painful choice a parent can ever make.
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