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Anthologies
A Love Like No Other: Stories from Adoptive Parents
By twenty leading authors
"Gripping, rarely told tales of life as adoptive parents." - USA Today
"Illuminates both the thrilling and trying elements of adoption." - People
"Compelling, complex, and compulsively readable." - Elle
"A rewarding read for adoptive parents, as well as for friends and family wishing to gain insight."-San Francisco Chronicle
"Gorgeous writing, deeply felt and strikingly expressed." - Christian Science Monitor
"A magical and candid collection, which I found impossible to put down...I guarantee it will provoke, edify, anger, amuse, stretch, touch, captivate, or even transform you." - Adoptive Families
The Orphan Myth by Doug Hood
A woman sat next to me at a bus station in Nicaragua, patted her swollen belly, and asked, "Do you want this baby?" This was back in the eighties, when I was in my late thirties. The place smelled of a dead animal, and I was feeling scorched. I glanced at her belly but continued to drink my Coke and act as if it were nothing, as if she were offering her sandals.
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The Lucky Ones: Our Stories of Adopting Children from China
Edited by Ann Rauhala
"These compelling, poignant, lovely vignettes will resonate with anyone who has ever adopted. . . . A beautiful collection that belongs in the home of adoptive families everywhere." —Jane A. Brown, MSW, creator, Adoption Playshops!
"Lucky us who are given the chance to glimpse this brave new world of families embraced by so much hope and goodwill." —Wayson Choy, author, The Jade Peony and All That Matters
"Despite this collection's upbeat tone, it doesn’t sugarcoat adoption—contributors wonder about birthparents, worry about prejudice, and struggle to parent children of a different culture." —Adoptive Families Magazine
Hua Jun Gets Daddy by Doug Hood
At a dinner party recently I mentioned taking Suki to her first movie, Pocahontas. Someone said, "Did you notice they really did up Pocahontas, with a push-up bra and tight skirt?" I answered, "Actually, I found her girldfriend cuter, with her little bangs and all." Another friend lowered his voice and said, "Doug, it's just a cartoon."
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Our Silk Road by Doug Hood
Like a pair of Kerouac vagabonds, Suki and I have lugged our satchels to a lot of low-end hotels and have killed a lot of time in bus stations and on ferries. We’ve wandered the empty streets of towns where tourists won’t go, eaten at tortilla stands, hired taxis or even the hotel clerk for the day with the hope of finding a local gem. We understand this is what we do and we know the price. While we rarely make it to neighborhood cookouts, we might be rooting for the bull at a bullfight, lost trying to find an orphanage, forking over $25 for a taco in Zurich, or perhaps flopped at noon in a room in a jetlagged stupor. Even her passport looks like it slept in a park.
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A Pasage to the Heart: Writings from Families with Children from China
Edited by Amy Klatzkin
Hua Jun Gets Daddy by Doug Hood
At a dinner party recently I mentioned taking Suki to her first movie, Pocahontas. Someone said, "Did you notice they really did up Pocahontas, with a push-up bra and tight skirt?" I answered, "Actually, I found her girldfriend cuter, with her little bangs and all." Another friend lowered his voice and said, "Doug, it's just a cartoon."
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Going Back by Doug Hood
I was going back to China. It had been over two years since I adopted my daughter, Suki, there. I'm a physician's assistant, and the chance came to do volunteer work for a medical organiztion.
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