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Caroline Leavitt is the author of several novels, including Meeting Rozzy Halfway, Lifelines, Jealousies, Family, Into Thin Air, Living Other Lives, Coming Back To Me, Girls In Trouble and The Wrong Sister.
Leavitt is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Award in Fiction, and a Goldenberg Fiction Prize. She was also a National Magazine Award Nominee in Personal Essay, a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Awards and a finalist in the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. A book critic for The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle and People, she has also published in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, More, Redbook, Parenting, and more. Pictures of You was named one of the Best Books of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks, and one of the top five books by Kirkus Reviews. Is This Tomorrow was named one of the Best Books of the Year by January magazine, and was long-listed for the Maine Prize, as well as being a Jewish Book Council BookClub Pick.
She lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with the music journalist and author Jeff Tamarkin and has a college-aged son.
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Why a novel about adoption?
Well, I hadn't intended to write about adoption and then life
intruded. After my husband and I had had our son, I had a medical condition
which made it impossible for me to have more children, so we thought about
adoption. We have a relative who did open adoption, and that seemed the way to go
for us.
Open adoption is different from regular adoption isn't it?
Yup. In the past adoption was very secretive. The birth mother
would give away the child, sometimes not even knowing who the adoptive parents
were, and the records would be sealed. Not a great thing for either the birth
mother or the child. People thought this separation was necessary for bonding,
and but actually, what it does is create a hole, which is why years later you
have birth mothers searching for the children they gave up, and those children
searching for their birth parents. It's natural to wonder where you came from.
Open adoption says that not only can birth mothers know who is going to adopt
their child, they can choose the parents. And there can be continual contact. As
much as all agree on. Sometimes it's once a month, sometimes it's once a year.
How do they choose?
Well, you place an ad with a 1...
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