Tag Archives: adoption
* The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
This one may work for incurable romantics, but not for me. The Language of Flowers is the sugary story of a newly emancipated foster child who magically finds a job, a lover, and a family based on the Victorian language … Continue reading
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*** Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
In the usual Maeve Binchy style, Minding Frankie serves up a dying single mother, a reforming alcoholic, a miracle-worker forgotten American cousin who is soon more Irish than the natives, a homeless priest with a great heart, and a suspicious … Continue reading
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** Bound by Antonya Nelson
Bound is a clever tapestry of seemingly unrelated stories that somehow come together – almost but not quite. There’s a brilliantly captured teenager who loses her mother and makes her own way, a ditzy older woman who somehow rises to … Continue reading
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My Father’s Daughter by Hannah Pool
Hannah Pool was born in Eritrea but was promptly adopted by an English couple who was told that she was an orphan and she was raised mostly in Britain. After learning by chance that her biological father was actually alive … Continue reading
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The Girls: A Novel by Lori Lansens
The Girls is a novel about conjoined twins born during a tornado… that manages not to be neither cute nor freakish, but rather a deep, moving reflection on what autonomy and self-direction mean when you share a body with someone else. Very … Continue reading
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