“One of the most thoughtful books on adoption to come along in years…. A Love Like No Other contains some gorgeous writing, deeply felt and strikingly expressed. Its reflections on the joys, complexities, and occasional heartbreak of the parent-adoptive child relationship hold value for anyone, whatever the context or constitution of their families.”
Christian Science Monitor »
“Required reading...Brilliant reflections of the challenges and glories of what really makes a family--love."
The Boston Globe
“Illuminates both the thrilling and trying elements of adoption.”
People
“Gripping, rarely told tales of life as adoptive parents.”
USA Today »
“Compelling, complex, and compulsively readable.”
Elle »
"Thanks to the bracing honesty of these tales, readers see in complex portraits the many faces of families created by adoption."
Los Angeles Times
"An exploration of raising adopted children as multidimensional as the experience itself. many faces of families created by adoption“
San Francisco Chronicle »
“Evocative, sometimes provocative, personal essays that have the liveliness and immediacy of prose fiction.”
Publishers Weekly
“A magical and candid collection, which I found impossible to put down…It will provoke, edify, anger, amuse, stretch, touch, captivate, or even transform you.”
Adoptive Families
Excerpts also published in Redbook, Parenting, Parents, Reader's Digest, and the New York Times.
Other Media Attention
Reader's Digest Editors' Choice book pick December 2006
New York Times, "After the Adoption, a New Child and the Blues," April 25, 2006
NPR’s Talk of the Nation, “Adoption Stories,” December 26, 2005
Newark Star-Ledger/Newhouse News Service, “Chosen Children: Writers Focus on Joys and Challenges of Adoption,” November 3, 2005
Philadelphia Inquirer, “Adoptive Parents Tell It Like It Is,” December 14, 2005
New York Times (NJ section), “Heart Songs About Adoption,” November 27, 2005 |
