"These poems and stories illuminate the difficulties and sorrows, the joys and hard reckonings of the adoption experience. Far from being a narrowly focused anthology, this book is about the core issues for humans everywhere: how we came to be here, in what company, how to shape our lives and love each other in the midst of luck and fate, choice and will. As literature and as testament, A Ghost at Heart's Edge is a moving collection." Kim Addonizio, author of In the Box Called Pleasure, Jimmy & Rita : Poems and The Philosopher's Club

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	"A thoughtful and moving collection of poems and stories that dismantles adoption myths by showing people, touched by adoption in all their complexity. Poignant short pieces are arranged in sections which represent the adoption process: the period before adoption takes place, the transition period when the child moves from one family to another, how adoption affects childhood, identity issues for those who grow up adopted, and search and reunion issues between birth relatives. This wonderful collections resonates some of the deepest truths of the adoption experience from the points of view of all who are affected; adopted people, birth parents and adoptive parents." Beth Hall, director, PACT: An Adoption Alliance
	A Ghost at Heart's Edge: Stories and Poems of Adoption Susan Ito and Tina Cervin, co-editors North Atlantic Books $16.95 trade paper ISBN 1-55643-323-9, 346 pp. A Ghost at Heart's Edge is a groundbreaking literary anthology of adoption. While there are many nonfiction books available on adoption, A Ghost at Heart's Edge is the only book which contains adoption literature, in the form of short stories and poetry. Written by both well-known and novice authors, including Alison Lurie, Isabel Allende, Sandra McPherson, Louise Erdrich, Chitra Divakaruni, and Lynna Williams, this collection conveys the wide range of emotions involved for all of those touched by adoption, including the five million adoptive families in the United States today. FastCounter by bCentral
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