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Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You, Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines, Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines.
Her many essays, stories, book reviews and articles have appeared in Salon, Psychology Today, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, The New York Times Modern Love, Publisher's Weekly, People, Real Simple, New York Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and numerous anthologies. She won First Prize in Redbook Magazine's Young Writers Contest for her short story, "Meeting Rozzy Halfway," which grew into the novel. The recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction for Into Thin Air, she was also a National Magazine Award nominee for personal essay, and she was awarded an honorable mention, Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review, for "Breathe," a portion of Pictures of You.
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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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