NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN by Julia Brewer Daily - Review & Giveaway

 

Julia Brewer Daily's novel, NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN (AdmissionPress) is about three unwed women who are pregnant and hidden away by their parents and society as a whole in the 1960s until they give birth.

Three women find themselves in early pregnancy sent to Magnolia Home Hospital in New Orleans to wait out their pregnancies and give their babies away to be adopted. Sandy escapes her mother's abusive boyfriend. Desperate for money she begins dancing in a strip joint. It isn't long before she's pregnant. Becca falls in love and gets pregnant by a Negro, which is unheard of by her conservative southern parents in the 1960s. She's quickly whisked away to wait to deliver her baby at Magnolia Home. Faith is raped by a man her religious parent's trust and is unable to tell them the truth. Her father sends her away. All three women find themselves at Magnolia Home hospital having their babies on the same day and giving them away without even seeing them. They are expected to return to their lives as if nothing happened, once they give birth. 

Sandy, Becca and Faith form extremely close friendships and twenty-five years later they are brought back together by blackmail. Someone is threatening to expose their secrets and ruin their lives.

NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN is told by Sandy, Becca and Faith sharing their stories in alternating chapters. Although NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN is a fictional account of many adoption stories in the 1960s, it is based on the true way society treated unwed mothers. It is compelling and we find out at the end, that the author was indeed adopted at two months old from a maternity hospital. NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN is ultimately about love and redemption.

Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.

She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.

She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers' only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.

As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father's family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.

www. juliadaily.com

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