Three Hearts Stitched: Poems About Adoption

WINNER in Contemporary Poetry for the 2024 American Fiction Awards Drawing on her own experience as an adopted child, author Celaine Charles crafts a collection of honest and heartbreaking poems. Healing, layered, and beautiful, these touching poems thoughtfully embrace a wide range of emotions and experiences. The child who wonders if they were wanted or unwanted. A birth mother filled simultaneously with sorrow and hope. Parents who long for children to arrive. Confusion, sadness, joy. Th...