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Lost & Found: The Journey of Socorro is a heartfelt and inspiring memoir that chronicles the author's incredible journey - from being found on the streets of Mexico as a child, through adoption, marriage, motherhood, divorce, and eventually finding love and healing again.
This isn’t the kind of book I usually reach for, as I don’t often read memoirs, but I found this one deeply engaging. The author's voice is honest and reflective, with thoughtful insights woven throughout. Faith plays a signific ...more
This isn’t the kind of book I usually reach for, as I don’t often read memoirs, but I found this one deeply engaging. The author's voice is honest and reflective, with thoughtful insights woven throughout. Faith plays a signific ...more
In this personal and religious memoir, Linda tells us the story of her life, starting when she was a toddler lost in the streets of Guadalajara to her adoption and life in the United States where she becomes the person she was meant to be. In sharing her story, she’s allowing herself to be vulnerable for everyone to see, which takes great strength. I don’t normally read memoirs and I really don't like reading anything faith-based, but I found this one to be interesting and full of hope. I would’
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This is the story of one woman's journey, through both wonderful and awful experiences, toward becoming the person that she is meant to be. It's a personal tale into which the author welcomes the reader as she reflects on and shares life lessons from her past. Imbued with the author's faith, the tale relates her realizations without becoming preachy. While the book uses elements of both memoir and autobiography, those serve mainly as support for the author's reflections on significant moments of
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It’s hard to imagine a two or three year old child wandering alone amid the swirl of an enormous city, but that is the experience in Guadalajara that author Linda A. Sanchez reveals in her touching account of her life: Perdida y Hallada, El Viaje De Socorro (Lost & Found, the Journey of Socorro). She was saved by police who took her to an orphanage where she stayed for two years before being adopted by an American couple from California.
How did she end up alone in a big city? Did she wander awa ...more
How did she end up alone in a big city? Did she wander awa ...more
