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Impressive for both its breadth and its quality, A Love Like No Other is a timely and heartwarming mosaic of the contemporary lives of adoptive parents and their children.
Riverhead
November 2005
272 pages
ISBN: 1573223166
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Adoption now affects more American families than ever
before-1.5 million adopted children live in the United
States today, and 60 percent of Americans report some kind
of personal connection to adoption. Happily, this surge has
coincided with an increasing mainstream acceptance of
adoption as just another way to form a family, complete
with its own frustrations and joys that deserve to be
discussed and celebrated. A Love Like No Other does just that. It features twenty
leading writers, all of whom are adoptive parents,
discussing their personal experiences. They include
adoptive parents of children of other races, like Emily
Prager, who grapples with how to best keep her daughter
connected to her Chinese roots; parents whose families
blend biological children and adopted children, like
bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard; single mothers of
only children, like journalist Sheila Stainback; and same-
sex adoptive parents like Jesse Green, who wonders how his
sons will feel when instructed to make a Mother's Day card.
They live in big cities and small towns, and have adopted
domestically and overseas. Some of their stories soberingly
address the potential complications of adoptive parenting,
while others tell of happily enriched family lives. Impressive for both its breadth and its quality, A Love
Like No Other is a timely and heartwarming mosaic of the
contemporary lives of adoptive parents and their children.
In elegant prose and with refreshing honesty, these essays
will introduce you to a group of families you won't soon
forget.
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