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Monday Evening Speaker Series with Gabrielle Glaser 2/8/21

New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Glaser will discuss her new book "American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption" which was released on January 26, 2021. In 1961, 16-year-old Margaret Erle became pregnant by her boyfriend, and her parents sent her to a maternity home. After she gave birth to a son, social workers threatened her into signing away her parental rights. For decades, Margaret tried desperately to find her son, but was blocked by the adoption agency that had handled his adoption. Investigative journalist Gabrielle Glaser follows Erle's journey in a wrenching narrative that centers on the secretive, exploitative adoption business in postwar America. In American Baby, she highlights how the adoption industry's practices led to countless forced separations, which she lays out in intense and chilling detail.