| Description |
x, 302 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Random House trade paperback original"--T.p. verso. |
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Originally published: London : Granta Books, 2005. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-302). |
| Contents |
Children -- Uncle Elwood / Paula Fox -- Witness protection / A.M. Homes -- Cakes and ale / Bernard Cornwell -- Airplane day / Abigail Rubin -- That awful occasion / Jeanette Winterson -- Shaping up / Robert Dessaix -- Oedipus descending / Jonathan Rendell -- New Year's Eve / Dan Chaon -- Confessions of an uncontrol freak / Dominic Collier -- The fortunate ones / Sandra Newman -- Our vocabulary / C. Lindsay Sagnette -- Merely information / Martin Rowson -- Parents -- Birth mothers -- Linda / Paula Fox -- Men and fish / Lise Saffran -- This is the day we give babies away / Priscilla T. Nagle -- Illusions / Hannah wa Muigai -- A love diverted / Lynn Lauber -- Adoptive parents -- Bringing home baby / Tama Janowitz -- My daughter's big brother / Matthew Engel -- How we met / Sarah Cameron -- Dear Djeneba / Meg Bortin -- The panda game / Emily Prager -- Kissing it better / Carol Lefevre -- The bear hunt / Mark Wormald -- The mandrake cry of a child / Mirabel Osler -- Happenstance / Daniel Menaker |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Case studies.
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Adoptive parents -- Biography.
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Adoptees -- Biography.
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Birthparents -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Holloway, Sara.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Family wanted. New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, c2005 (OCoLC)607424472 |
| ISBN |
0812975472 paperback |
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9780812975475 paperback |
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