Beyond the Third Door: Based On a True Story

By Maria Heckinger

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1543973787
• ISBN13: 9781543973785
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Bookbaby
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"