November 12
...serving up your daily dish.
Ever wonder what life is like as an adoptive parent? There's lots of literature geared to readers wishing to adopt a baby, but less about what happens after...the challenges and rewards of raising an adopted child. Now, a book seeking to fill that void, is also serving as a poignant piece of prose for any parent. A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents, isn't a guidebook to adoption. Written by Baristaville adoptive moms, Montclair journalist Jill Smolowe and Millburn author Pamela Kruger, the book reveals the sometimes secret world of life after adopting a child. Already picked up favorably by reviewers and on adoption blogs, the book's essays reveal the emotions, struggles and epiphanies by some 20 diverse adoptive parents (who also happen to be award-winning writers), stuff that doesn't crop up in casual conversation...
"You'd think by now that adoption's so deep in our culture that the next thing we'll be giving our kids is Barbie's Chinese Baby, but our families are still a curiosity -- still regarded as a little on the shady side of regular," writes Mitchard, whose novel "The Deep End of the Ocean" was the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club.
For more about the book and the writers featured, click here.
