The Book Club at LCGS

Title: The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Author: Paul Joseph Fronczak

This book tells the astonishing true story of Paul Fronczak, who was kidnapped as a newborn from a Chicago hospital in 1964, and whose disappearance became one of the most baffling missing-infant cases in U.S. history. Two years later, a boy believed to be Paul was found abandoned, and his parents raised him — but as an adult he began to question his identity and set out on a decades-long search to uncover the truth about who he really was.

The book is a blend of personal memoir, investigative reporting, and true-crime narrative, exploring themes of identity, family, loss, and the human desire to uncover where we come from.   Advance Zoom registration is required.