Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Adoption
For some strange reason, adoption seems to be Theme O' the Month* for me. First, a post from over at Open Brackets. Then, on an audiobook ripping spree at the library, I read/listened to Joanna Trollope's "Brother and sister" (a moving read, but not worth 9 hours). Now I've just come across another adoption story from the New Yorker (painful). All quite coincidental, since I hardly ever read the New Yorker and usually avoid Joanna Trollope's fuzzy-wuzzy-boohoo covers. You know the type that screams "well-written but ultimately really slow adult emotional fiction": see also Anne Tyler.Tis interesting. Adoption is like a secret club where fellow members can't immediately recognise each other but share this common "clump of void", this trauma outside the realm of normal human experience. "Hi, I'm your mother, pleased to meet you" is just...surreal.
*ok, not really of the month, Gail Armstrong's post is from October. But "theme o' the quarter" is just cumbersome.
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