You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir

By Jeanne Baker Guy

Book Overview

In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells Jeanne he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a celebratory long weekend. Jeanne relents. But Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he writes that he has fled to Germany and Jeanne will never see him or her children again.

The next four months are filled with agony, despair, and anger as Jeanne seeks legal support but quickly learns that federal parental kidnapping laws will offer her little help. She reflects on her tumultuous ten-year marriage to Klaus and the unsettling events that followed their divorce. A product of the patriarchal culture of the 1950s, Jeanne's nice-girl mentality is being tested and reshaped by the feminist movement of the 1970s, and she finds that the kidnapping ultimately becomes a doorway to unexpected strength.

This is a story of a young mother coming into her own power, regardless of past mistakes, bad judgment, and fears. This is the story of a woman who realizes that she must tap into her newfound resilience and courage in order to find her stolen children--and steal them back.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1647421551
• ISBN13: 9781647421557
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"