Tree of Strangers

Tree of Strangers
Barbara Sumner
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Hardback
h210 x 128mm - 240pg
10 Sep 2020 NZ
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9780995135406
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Like many adopted children, filmmaker Barbara Sumner yearned to know who hermother was. New Zealand's closed adoption laws made that almost impossibleand coloured her chaotic adolescence and adult life. When she finally tracked hermother down, a longed-for reunion ended in tragedy. This remarkable, moving,beautifully written memoir explores Sumner's conviction that everyone who losestheir mother suffers some degree of physiological damage. They are all graftedonto the tree of strangers.
Barbara Sumner has had a long career in film and television and a journalist. Shenow runs the film production company Cloud South Pictures with her husband,Tom Burstyn. She has produced three feature documentaries, a number oftelevision commercials and instructional films. In 2009 This Way of Life, theirdocumentary movie about a family living simply in the Ruahine Ranges, wonawards at film festivals around the world. In 2020 she is enrolled at the IML atVictoria University. She lives in Napier.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780995135406
Published: 10 Sep 2020
Published In: New Zealand
Imprint: Massey University Press
Publisher: Massey University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 210mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 240

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