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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey Through Adoption

Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey Through Adoption

Wheeler, Jacob R.
Kreutner, Kevin

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralPregnancy & AdoptionWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 0803233620
ISBN13: 9780803233621
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Apr 1 2011
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.79 Depth: 8.75
Language: English
An adoption professional once told me, 'At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemala's. At its worst, there is none worse.'--from the foreword by Kevin Kreutner
In Between Light and Shadow veteran journalist Jacob Wheeler puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which has exploited, embraced, and sincerely sought to improve the lives of the Central American nation's poorest children. Fourteen-year-old Ellie, abandoned at age seven and adopted by a middle-class family from Michigan, is at the center of this story. Wheeler re-creates the painful circumstances of Ellie's abandonment, her adoption and Americanization, her search for her birth mother, and her joyous and haunting return to Guatemala, where she finds her teenage brothers--unleashing a bond that transcends language and national borders.

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