Research Catalog

Title

Loving Emma : a story of reluctant motherhood / Carol A. Ortlip.

Author

Ortlip, Carol A.

Publication

New York : Alyson Books, 2008.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 224 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Personal narrative of a gay woman unexpectedly raising an adopted autistic child with her partner.

Subject

• Ortlip, Carol A
• Middle-aged lesbians > Vermont > Biography
• Lesbian couples > Family relationships > Vermont
• Nonbiological mothers > Vermont > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Fist First -- 2. The Big Bang Theory of Family Dynamics -- 3. Didn't Want One -- 4. An Electric Storm Named Tanya -- 5. Rise and Fine -- 6. Hummingbird -- 7. Jane West to the Rescue -- 8. The Curves of the Spine -- 9. The "A" Word -- 10. Do the Right Thing -- 11. Emma Has Two Aunties -- 12. Becoming Fifty -- 13. Call Me "Grandpa" -- 14. And a Dog Shall Lead Them -- 15. At the Foot of Her Bed -- 16. You Would Think by Now... -- 17. Watching Emma -- 18. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? -- 19. A Day in the Life -- 20. Eleven It Is -- Epilogue: Red Eft on the Road.

ISBN

• 9781593500658 (pbk.)
• 1593500653 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 182529238
• SCSB-12429899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library