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Some stories are passed down in whispers. Others must be chased through the shadows.Splintered Shadows: Recovering a...
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Some stories are passed down in whispers. Others must be chased through the shadows.
Splintered Shadows: Recovering a French Résistante is an unconventional adoptee-search narrative told against the backdrop of World War II. After the War, Andrée married an American serviceman, left France, and carried the story of her earlier life to her grave. Her adoptive daughter, Marilyn Moriarty, was left with only fragments-photographs, names, and unanswered questions hinted at a past far more complicated than it appeared.
Moriarty's search begins with a single name on a 1945 photograph and leads her across Europe, uncovering a hidden life shaped by secrecy, imprisonment, and dangerous choices in Nazi-occupied France. As she pieces together her mother's personal and political double lives, the narrative explores pressure faced by women under occupation and the lasting consequences of histories deliberatively concealed. Moving between past and present, Splintered Shadows is a powerful story of discover, reckoning, and making peace with a past inherited but never fully known.
Author: Marilyn F. Moriarty
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781959203155
About the Author
Moriarty, Marilyn F.: - Marilyn F. Moriarty is an award-winning writer and professor whose work spans creative nonfiction, fiction, and literary scholarship. Her writing appears in leading journals including The Kenyon Review, Creative Nonfiction, Raritan, and River Teeth with three essays recognized as "Notable" in The Best American Essays series. A recipient of the AWP Prize, Faulkner-Wisdom Gold Medal, Peregrine Prize, Katherine Anne Porter Prize, and University of Utah Novella Prize, Moriarty has been a Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. She holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, and taught literature at Hollins University.
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