Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering.There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photo...

Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them! The adult parties in open adoptions are left floundering. There are many resources on why to do open adoption, but what about how? Open adoption isn't just something parents do when they exchange photos, sen...

The truth of adoption lies in the voices of those who live it.Adoption is not a one-time event but rather a lifetime of experiences, perspectives, and truths that can impact generations. In this deeply honest and necessary book, an adoptee, a birth parent, and an adoptive parent come together to illuminate the often unspoken realities of adoption. Drawing from their own journeys and interviews with adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapis...

Adoption Unfiltered authors Sara Easterly (adoptee), Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard (birth parent), and Lori Holden (adoptive parent) interview dozens of adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, social workers, therapists, and other allies—all sharing candidly about the challenges in adoption. While finding common ground in the sometimes-contentious space of adoption may seem like a lofty goal, it reveals the authors' optimistic aim: working together with truth and transparency to ...

This is Kelly Holden's story of losing a husband she loved immensely and understanding that finding love again does not mean you stop loving the first person. It is a story of grief, healing, and hope.Her life, like many others, resembles broken pottery. The key to being happy is finding beauty in these imperfections, which is from where the title of the book comes.Kintsugi is a centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery and transforming it into a netwo...

Romanzo breve che si colloca a pieno titolo nella più classica tradizione ucronica e distopica, prendendo spunto e origine da un evento contemporaneo reale e catastrofico: la pandemia di Covid-19. La storia, essenzialmente drammatica, lascia trasparire un crudo e viscerale sarcasmo di fondo, equiparando in modo sottile, ma non troppo, le dinamiche di propagazione e affermazione di una entità venefica e impalpabile quale un virus appunto, a quelle di una idea, ma ancor più...

Quattordici racconti che tratteggiano spaccati di esperienze similari e aliene a un tempo.Caoticamente eclettici nel loro susseguirsi e nel linguaggio, sovente crudo e diretto, a volte gergale; sempre costellato di metafore e allusioni, perlopiù sessuali, più sboccato che lascivo, un po’ guascone. Il sesso quindi: un sesso brullo, senza amore, neanche particolarmente allegro, spesso greve, fatticcio, spoglio e didascalico, tanto più bello e sincero quanto squallido.Altre volt...