On Sunday November 6th at 3 p.m. BROOKLYN READING WORKS at the Old Stone House presents JESSE GREEN and CHRISTINA FRANK reading from a new anthology about adoption called: A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER: STORIES FROM ADOPTIVE PARENTS.

The Old Stone House is located in JJ Byrne Park on Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets. Free. Refreshments. Books available. Discussion to follow.

This event is NOT just for adoptive parents or those contemplating adoption but for anyone interested in families and children. Please join us for what promises to be a great event. 

ABOUT THE BOOK:

From various perspectives, 20 adoptive parents offer evocative, sometimes provocative, personal essays that have the liveliness and immediacy of prose fiction. Biological parents are variously imagined, sought and found in the opening section, "Reflections on Birth Parents." In "Encounters with the Unexpected," adoptive parents confront "postadoption depression," family wariness, ethnic identity issues and disabling psychological problems. Each family (single parent, gay parent, divorced parents, intra-family adoption, blended family) is adoptive in its unique way, persuasively confirmed in "Variations on Family." While the early sections focus on the parent-child relationship, the concluding "Personal Transformations" leans toward the child-to-parent effect; as one writer puts it, "I knew a child would rearrange my home life, but upend my career and worldview? Those two items weren’t even on my list." 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. Diverse as this collection is, it’s worth noting that the essayists are professional writers (they include Jacquelyn Mitchard, Emily Prager and Dan Savage), most of the children are preadolescent and 11 of the adoptions are transnational (five of them from China).