“Ohlmann reveals herself to be a brave soul who reaches for the light while never turning from the dark. Her story sparkles with such insight and honesty, gutsy humor and restrained (midwestern) bravado, I felt bereft when I had to turn the last page and leave her.”-Beverly Donofrio, author of <i>Riding in Cars with Boys</i> and<i> Astonished</i> “I was moved and awed by Ohlmann’s honesty about the deep pain surrounding her adoption, her ability to take me from a choral performance (that goes gastrically awry) to her mother’s table-which you better be at by 5:30-to Nebraska’s multitudinous sandhill cranes (those cranes!). Although we couldn’t be much more different on paper, I couldn’t have related more.”-Patricia Resnick, screenwriter of 9<i> to 5</i>, <i>Straight Talk</i>, and <i>Better Things</i> “What’s unique about Suzanne Ohlmann’s <i>Shadow Migration</i> is the way in which she brings the many layers of her identity into the urgent search for her source. Ohlmann is an adoptee searching for a birthday do-over with migrating cranes, but she is also a musician and a nurse, a lover and a wife, a Nebraskan and a world traveler, a woman suffering from depression and a really good friend. I’d follow her anywhere.”-Jill Christman, author of <i>Darkroom: A Family Exposure</i>