Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780380795536)

In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died.

Author: Yvette Melanson, Claire Safran
ISBN-10: 0380795531
ISBN-13: 9780380795536
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2000
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d