Another quote I appreciate from Paul LaRosa’s commentary in New York Journal of Books:
“O’Dwyer does a compelling job of juxtaposing the adoption experience in a way that is rarely done … The book seems to beg the reader for an answer to the question: What would you do?”
Because no answers are simple in adoption. There is no clear conclusion. There is no black-and-white, right or wrong paradigm. There’s only gray. Which I didn’t understand going in. Which I learned only after years of parenting as an adoptive mother.
What does it feel like to live in that uncertainty? That’s a question I wanted the reader to consider.