{"product_id":"shadow-migration-9781496226860","title":"Shadow Migration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into flight over miles and decades of migration: from an apple-pie childhood in America’s Fourth of July City to the dirt floors of a cowshed in rural India, we zigzag across time and geography to see the world through Ohlmann’s eyes and to discover with her the pain she’d been avoiding through her boomerang travels away from her native home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through incarnations as a musician, arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house is haunted, and so is she. In the dark solitude of Ohlmann’s basement the vision of a dead child presents her with a harrowing choice: she can go home to Nebraska and seek the truth of her biological past, or, like the boy, surrender to the depths of her own darkness. With honesty, compassion, and a sense of humor, Ohlmann recounts her tenacious search into the shadows of her l\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ohlmann reveals herself to be a brave soul who reaches for the light while never turning from the dark. Her story sparkles with such insight and honesty, gutsy humor and restrained (midwestern) bravado, I felt bereft when I had to turn the last page and leave her.”—Beverly Donofrio, author of \u003ci\u003eRiding in Cars with Boys\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Astonished\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was moved and awed by Ohlmann’s honesty about the deep pain surrounding her adoption, her ability to take me from a choral performance (that goes gastrically awry) to her mother’s table—which you better be at by 5:30—to Nebraska’s multitudinous sandhill cranes (those cranes!). Although we couldn’t be much more different on paper, I couldn’t have related more.”—Patricia Resnick, screenwriter of 9\u003ci\u003e to 5\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStraight Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBetter Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What’s unique about Suzanne Ohlmann’s \u003ci\u003eShadow Migration\u003c\/i\u003e is the way in which she brings the many layers of her identity into the urgent search for her source. Ohlmann is an adoptee searching for a birthday do-over with migrating cranes, but she is also a musician and a nurse, a lover and a wife, a Nebraskan and a world traveler, a woman suffering from depression and a really good friend. I’d follow her anywhere.”—Jill Christman, author of \u003ci\u003eDarkroom: A Family Exposure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Note\u003cbr\u003e 1. Gin\u003cbr\u003e 2. Thunder Road\u003cbr\u003e 3. Magnum PI\u003cbr\u003e 4. Archangel\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mom versus the Addict\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gray\u003cbr\u003e 7. Shadow Dad\u003cbr\u003e 8. Doppelgänger\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bapa\u003cbr\u003e 10. Hatchet\u003cbr\u003e 11. Zombie\u003cbr\u003e 12. Valkyrie\u003cbr\u003e 13. Fried-Egg Sandwich\u003cbr\u003e 14. Thumbs\u003cbr\u003e 15. Flight\u003cbr\u003e 16. Baseball\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236336983,"sku":"9781496226860","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496226860.jpg?v=1730506085","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shadow-migration-9781496226860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}