A couple of days ago I finished reading the book Black Baby, White Hands by Jaiya John and I have mixed opinions about it. On one hand I didn’t like the author’s prose that is sometimes a little hard to read,but on the other hand I think that it’s an important book for adoptive […]

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One of the things I’m doing before the arrival of the children is preparing their names with wooden letters painted in colors that I will hang on the wall of their bedrooms. I though it will we a good idea to welcome them and to make them feel that this is their home, that […]

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"What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng" is a cross between a novel and a biography. Its origin is a series of interviews that during several years author Dave Eggers had with Valentino Achak Deng, one of the many "lost boys" of Sudan.
Valentino survived the massacre of his people in Marial […]

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  "My guide and I came on that hidden road
to make our way back into the bright world;
and with no care for any rest, we climbed
he first, I following until I saw,
through a round opening, some of those things
of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there
that we emerged, to […]

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