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A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents
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BOOK DETAILS

  • Paperback
  • Nov.03.2005
  • 9781594482151
  • Riverhead Books

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Edited by Pamela Kruger & Jill Smolowe About the Anthology 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. From Publishers Weekly From various perspectives, 20 adoptive parents offer evocative, sometimes provocative, personal essays that have the liveliness and immediacy of prose fiction. Any parent will find commonality here, but the collection will especially engage adoptive parents in conversation and controversy with people who share their dilemmas and delights. Jackie's Essay: “Which Ones Are Yours?” Four of my seven kids were adopted; and when someone has the gall to ask me, even while they’re standing there,...
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Edited by Pamela Kruger & Jill Smolowe

About the Anthology

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.

From Publishers Weekly

From various perspectives, 20 adoptive parents offer evocative, sometimes provocative, personal essays that have the liveliness and immediacy of prose fiction. Any parent will find commonality here, but the collection will especially engage adoptive parents in conversation and controversy with people who share their dilemmas and delights.

Jackie's Essay: “Which Ones Are Yours?”

Four of my seven kids were adopted; and when someone has the gall to ask me, even while they’re standing there, which ones are mine, my blood boils!

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About Jacquelyn

Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago, the daughter of plumber and a mother who brought her putty from her part-time job at the hardware store. Of Canadian, Czech, and American Indian descent (a member of the Lac du Flambeau Cree Chippewa tribe) she is the first person...

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