Ordinary Days and Tender Places: How We Talk (and Don't Talk) About Adoption in America

An adoptive parent and historian delves into the differences of families made by law, not biology-- and shows us the deep value of those differences

Adoption touches on some of our most vexing social questions, about race and sexuality, abortion rights, economic inequality, even foreign policy and global poverty. More than that, it prods us in tender places, reminding us of our own questions about belonging and separation, identity and alienation, our worries about what is determined by fate...