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Linus and Arthur‘s family continues to grow and strengthen in the face of oppression. This was just as corny, playful, sweet, laugh-out-loud, and heartwarming as the first book. The afterward was beautiful and made me cry a bit for various reasons. #LGBTQIA #Adoption

Web photo because cats never cooperate with the camera. 😹😹😹

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Got these from the nearby book swap a little while back.

An important read. Asgarian primarily focuses on the tragic story of six adopted children who were killed in a murder/suicide when their parents intentionally drove off the road in 2018, but she also zooms out to take a look at the broken foster care and child protection services systems in America. Truly heartbreaking.

While slow in places, this is a very beautiful book, reminiscent in ways of Agee's A Death in the Family--not in terms of the story, but in the way it reveals so many characters. I love that Patchett doesn't resort to chapters headed by the characters' names but just shifts seamlessly through the hearts and minds of the different family members.

#CharacterCharm @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Mother&child

I don‘t like the tag line on this “the poignant true story of a mother and the son she had to give away” because she didn‘t give him away, he was taken from her.