"Connelly takes us on a poignant, disarming, and often funny literary journey exploring loss, family loyalty, and the buried roots of the parent-child bond." -Eric Lichtblau, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, author of The Nazis Next Door "For anyone who has ever had a mother... Part family memoir, part investigative odyssey, Offered in Secret is the story of one son's reluctant quest to find the ideal...