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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
I have never heard a story quite like Paul's. It is interesting and relatively easy to follow but like many true crime books left me feeling slightly unsatisfied because there were still so many questions unanswered. I hope that in the future they find the truth.
This is one of the most gripping, absorbing books I’ve ever read. An incredible, unbelievable story. One that will stay with me for a long time.
I long for the rest of his story.
I long for the rest of his story.
What happens when you find out your story – your life story is a lie? How do you address it? Confront it with your so-called parents?
It isn’t even a story about whether you are adopted or not.
It is a story about being kidnapped and then found and returned, but then…is it really you who was found?
This is Paul’s story – or is it?
As a non-fiction book, it reads like a compelling mystery, one that keeps us readers engaged and interested and motivated – we want to know, too!
Will Paul find himself – his true identity?
And...
When he does – what will change, if anything?
Plus...
There is so much to this mystery, so much to unravel, that as readers we are rooting for Paul to find his way, to locate his history, so that he can move forward in his life and find the peace he deserves – and maybe we can be treated to some justice served?
Sorry, no spoilers revealed here.
It isn’t even a story about whether you are adopted or not.
It is a story about being kidnapped and then found and returned, but then…is it really you who was found?
This is Paul’s story – or is it?
As a non-fiction book, it reads like a compelling mystery, one that keeps us readers engaged and interested and motivated – we want to know, too!
Will Paul find himself – his true identity?
And...
When he does – what will change, if anything?
Plus...
There is so much to this mystery, so much to unravel, that as readers we are rooting for Paul to find his way, to locate his history, so that he can move forward in his life and find the peace he deserves – and maybe we can be treated to some justice served?
Sorry, no spoilers revealed here.
This book had so many things that appealed to my own personal interests: true crime, family secrets, genealogy, and DNA testing. I enjoyed being taken on a journey through the author's obsessive search for his true identity.
Love this book
Couldn’t put this book down, literally fell asleep with it in my hands. I hope he finds the answers to his remaining questions!
Couldn’t put this book down, literally fell asleep with it in my hands. I hope he finds the answers to his remaining questions!
Page turner. I could not put it down. I sat mouth agape at times, then tears, then gasps, then utter heartbreak & more tears; it was a wild ride of emotions. By the end I was thinking about my own dysfunctional family & how just as Paul discovered, that shapes us into, at least in part, who we are.
It's worth noting, that in 2020 they have found the kidnapped boy, now a grown man, he talked with his biological mother
Not long after though, he died of cancer
Not long after though, he died of cancer
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I already knew about this story from true crime youtube but I thought that it would be interesting to hear from a person directly involved in it. It's very informative if you don't know much about the world of genealogy and the writer has paced the telling of the story well.
I listened to the audiobook. I thought the story was interesting, and kept my attention, but I couldn't get over my thoughts that his story could have been told better. The author jumps from point to point in his story, and often repeats what he has said in the past multiple times. I'm not sure if he has fully worked through his feelings, which would have been more interesting to read. It seems like he is still detached from the story itself, we get no closure about a lot of the case, and this makes the story become more a statement of fact and how DNA analysis and family tree building with these DNA websites works. Even a lot of the science, though, is briefly glossed over.
I'm not sure that the author really is even able to properly thank the team that worked on his case for him, I feel like at the end of all this, this experience didn't change anything about him personally, it could be how the story reads, but I felt frustrated throughout the story.
The audiobook was pretty good, entertaining to listen to on my commutes to and from work and while on a recent road trip (short road trip) to visit friends. I'm not sure how the book would read otherwise though.
I'm not sure that the author really is even able to properly thank the team that worked on his case for him, I feel like at the end of all this, this experience didn't change anything about him personally, it could be how the story reads, but I felt frustrated throughout the story.
Spoiler
I'd really like to know if they ever found out what happened to "the real" Paul Fronczak, and what happened to Jill. Maybe I'll do some research into this. I also really wish that he had gone to the ocean, or had waited until he let the story change him a little more before retelling the facts. If the author is trying to say that the "real me" is only found through knowing who your family is, I'm not sure that I can buy into that, but that's just my opinion.The audiobook was pretty good, entertaining to listen to on my commutes to and from work and while on a recent road trip (short road trip) to visit friends. I'm not sure how the book would read otherwise though.