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This Anthology Of Mainly Autobiographical Pieces Covers The Gamut Of The Adoption Experience. A. M. Homes Tells Of Being Relentlessly Tracked Down By Her Birth Mother, And Bernard Cornwall About Being Adopted By Members Of A Repressive Religious Sect; Tama Janowitz Comically Describes Meeting Her Chinese Daughter For The First Time, And Martin Rowson Reflects On Encountering His Surprisingly Numerous Long-lost Siblings; Matthew Engel Wrestles With International Red Tape And Social Workers In His Bid To Adopt A Child, And Emily Prager Writes Movingly About How Her Young Daughter Came To Terms With Being Adopted; Jonathan Rendall Falls For His Birth Mother, And Paula Fox Writes About The Joy Of Being Reunited With The Daughter She Gave Up For Adoption Decades Before.--book Jacket. Cakes And Ale / Bernard Cornwell -- That Awful Occasion / Jeanette Winterson -- Witness Protection / A. M. Homes -- Shaping Up / Robert Dessaix -- Oedipus Descending / Jonathan Rendall -- New Year's Eve / Dan Chaon -- Confessions Of An Uncontrol Freak / Dominic Collier -- The Fortunate Ones / Sandra Newman -- Merely Information / Martin Rowson -- Uncle Elwood / Paula Fox -- Linda / Paula Fox -- Men And Fish
- Author
- Sara Holloway, Dan Chaon
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781862077539
- Subjects
- Social Science, Social_sciences
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