Grit & Magic: A Mother's Story of Modern Adoption

Is it possible to stay hopeful - and to keep a sense of humor -

• While your deepest desire is threatened?
• When you're falsely accused?
• When people you trust advise you to hide your heritage?

Melanie Herz Promecene, who faced each of those challenges while trying to adopt a child, is walking proof that the answer is yes. In this staggeringly honest, often hilarious, always hopeful memoir, Promecene takes readers with her through the terror of 9/11 in New York, the floods of Hurricane Ha...