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The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler received the Ballard Book Prize and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book is a social history and personal account that explores the experiences of over 100 women who surrendered their children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade. Fessler, who was also adopted, documents the shame, secrecy, and psychological harm these women faced, often after being sent away to "homes for unwed mothers".
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