SWWRRA is hosting the gifted author, Maria Heckinger. She is a retired Vancouver School District teacher and will talk about her book Beyond The Third Door, which is guaranteed to be enjoyed by everyone.
- Date: Thursday, February 27th
- Time: 11:30 AM
- Place: Cascadia Tech Academy
12200 NE 28th St., Vancouver, WA 98682
Invite a friend to enjoy this presentation with you.
My book has three narrators: my birth mother, my adopted mother, and myself. It is the tale of two mothers and their connection to one child. One mother was shamed because she had a child and the other because she couldn’t. I am one of 3,500 Greek orphans adopted to the U.S. in the 1950s. Conceived in an act of violence, I was born to an unwed mother who was exiled from her island home for 44 years. Homeless and seven months pregnant in a large mainland city, she could not care for me and lost me to foreign adoption. Raised in California, I returned to Greece when I was 30 where, through a series of life-changing events, I reconnected with my birth mother. Finally, as the orphaned child, I tell my story. Based on documents and oral histories given by both mothers, and my experiences, it is a tale so miraculous it reads like fiction.