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78 reviews for:
The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
Paul Joseph Fronczak
3.61 AVERAGE
78 reviews for:
The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me
Paul Joseph Fronczak
3.61 AVERAGE
The premise of this book really sucked me in! A kidnapped baby! Mistaken identity! DNA tests! Wow, what a story! But the particulars let me down. Paul is pathologically self-centered and the entire book revolves around him, his feelings, his doubts, and everything he's gone through as a sort of way to rationalize the pain that he puts everyone around him in while pursuing this story. Everything is "me, me, me" with him. While I understand his quest and sympathize with his ordeal, it was almost like he was seeking fodder for all of his teen angst as an adult. In seeking genetically-based answers, he destroyed the people that really mattered: the parents and brother who raised him, his wife who ended up leaving him, and his daughter whom he claims to love more than anything else in the world. Just seemed really self-serving to me and left a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth overall.
A very intriguing story that proves that reality is more intriguing than fiction. This book kept me reading just to find out what happened next. I judge a book on its ability to keep me from putting the book down. This book succeeded. I would highly recommend it.
Very interesting story but the writing was repetitive and very textbook.
A well written, page turner about a real life mystery. The story was surprising on every level.
Paul Joseph Fronczak's story is fascinating - almost unbelievable. The Foundling was a quick read; it definItely kept my interest, due to my own interest in genealogy. The story has many twists and turns, and the mystery is not completely solved by the end of the book, although some part has apparently been resolved since the book was published in 2017. As evidenced by my quick reading, I did enjoy this book; it just wasn't great.
Tying into my own family, Paul's adoptive mother was the daughter of Croatian immigrants and her sister married a Majestic (Joseph), a name which appears in my extended family. (50)
Also, one of the real Paul suspects, Sam Miller, suffered from the hereditary PKD, which also affects some of my family members. (162)
Tying into my own family, Paul's adoptive mother was the daughter of Croatian immigrants and her sister married a Majestic (Joseph), a name which appears in my extended family. (50)
Also, one of the real Paul suspects, Sam Miller, suffered from the hereditary PKD, which also affects some of my family members. (162)
The first half of the book was fascinating. But he didn't know where to stop and let his search ruin his family.
Interesting story but half way in he gets deep into the genealogy and family names. Lost interest
While this was definitely a page turner I did think their book was a little longer then it needed to be. I really wish a family tree had been included because it was hard to keep some of the names straight, especially towards the end of the book. I do think this is an interesting look at generational trauma and the issues with adoption. I definitely would recommend to anyone who likes true crime but wants a book that focuses on the victims feelings rather then the violence.
In 1964, Paul Fronczak was a baby kidnapped from a Chicago hospital by someone pretending to be a nurse. Two years later he is abandoned at a department store and he is returned to his family - or was he? Lots of family secrets to go around and more mysteries to solve. If your idea of fun is getting lost in ancestry.com, this book is for you!
Listen, this story is crazy.
It's like overhearing someone tell you the craziest life story you ever heard and then telling you about how they pieced together so many crazy things and there's pretty much no science and a lot of salacious gossip-y lunacy.
But it's this guy's real true life.
And the world is different than you think.
It's like overhearing someone tell you the craziest life story you ever heard and then telling you about how they pieced together so many crazy things and there's pretty much no science and a lot of salacious gossip-y lunacy.
But it's this guy's real true life.
And the world is different than you think.