![]() ![]() Whether she is describing the lands she visited to gather her children or the days that followed back home in Georgia, her words are flush with humanity and all the messiness and comedy that humanity trails in its wake. ![]() It is not permissible to dabble in that way in someone’s life-especially a child’s.” Fortunately, the author and the boy formed a bond, and he became a member of the family, as did girl and three boys from Ethiopia in subsequent years. Upon meeting him, she began to realize the heavy significance of the adoption process: “If I had thought this was a free look, a check-this-one-out, a no risk trial with the possibility of a full refund, I was wrong. ![]() After finding a boy in Bulgaria, she traveled there to investigate. This was in the 1990s, a faraway time Greene recalls when her computer has to do “squat thrusts” to warm up before connecting to international-adoption sites on the Internet. So when her eldest of four prepared for college, the author began to feel empty-nest syndrome, and she and her husband considered adoption. Greene ( There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children, 2006, etc.) is the kind of person most engaged when there is a thick scrum of children underfoot. The prodigiously cheering reflections of a mother gathering a large brood of children, both biological and adopted. ![]()
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