Donna Freed - Duplicity: My Mothers’ Secrets

Donna Freed's birth parents were infamous con artists at the center of one of the US's biggest crime investigations of the 1960s. Donna set out to find her birth mother, uncovering a shocking truth. Her mother, a single Jewish woman, and her father, a married Catholic man, had plotted to defraud an insurance company and escape to Spain. In 1967, Mira Lindenmaier, Donna's mother, faked her death for insurance money. This gripping memoir tackles motherhood, identity, and nature vs. nurture in a fast-paced and moving narrative.