Two Dads and a Lump of Clay
Published in The Manifest Station
Hearing His Voice Changed Everything
Published in the Modern Love column at nytimes.com
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It’s My Mom’s Fault I Stole Her Letters
Published in salon.com
NPR’s This American Life: Episode #757 The Ghost in the Machine
December 31, 2021. Rebroadcasted December 16, 2022.
CBC Radio: Tapestry with Mary Hynes
December 5, 2021. Rebroadcasted September 4, 2022. Listen here.
Step Adoptees: What do we know and why should we care?
Published in Severance Magazine
I’m Retiring. Shouldn’t I Be Celebrating?
Published in Oldster Magazine.
Tell Me About Your Father — Michèle Dawson Haber in conversation with Matthew Phillp
Aired May 23, 2022. Listen here.
Suzy Rosenstein’s Women in the Middle Podcast Episode #240
Aired February 24, 2022. Listen here.
Writing the Past Interview
Right to Know MPE Narratives
Published in Right to Know
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“I admire and am deeply moved by Michèle Dawson Haber’s emotional intelligence and honesty in writing a narrative that revives her connection with the father she never knew. Written with grace and courage, her story offers insight into the essential bonds that give meaning to our lives.”
—Helen Fremont, national bestselling author of After Long Silence and The Escape Artist. www.helenfremont.com
“In her brave and labyrinthine quest to know a father she never knew, Michèle Dawson Haber takes us on an elemental journey that proves both “scary and revitalizing.” Her discovery of tantalizing letters and audio tapes pull her down a dark path she has been told not to take, but the artist in her must persist. Along the way, she startles her soul out of “deep slumber”, and if we the readers are as open as her, we share in the experience, and the healing.”
—James FitzGerald, author of What Disturbs Our Blood: A Son’s Quest To Redeem the Past, winner of the 2010 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize. www.jamesfitzgerald.ca
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