Adoption

[close] Beta read new Jeffrey Marcus Oshins novel the Dim Light of Reason. Help the author polish and test reading group discussion topics. Oshins' fifth novel is about a woman's search for the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen.

[close] We decided to create this group because books are a great way to bring together people with common interests to share ideas and discuss issues of mutual interest and concern. We have all been in the situation where we have just finished a great book which has raised thoughts and questions, and really want to “process” the contents, but did not have anybody else to share those thoughts with. Especially when reading adoption related material, there is so much to process. We may find that having a safe place to discuss the reading will enhance each participant’s learning experience. There will also be an adoption professional on each call to help facilitate and to offer additional resources if needed. Our hope is that this group will bring together people with various roles in adoption and of different life stages. And that this will allow for the group to offer different perspectives as we partner through different adoption related material. We hope to focus on each participant learning from the reading, as well as from others within the group.

[close] Susan Piper was adopted years ago in Thailand. A once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity brings her to Japan for the opening of a new museum. It also gives her the excuse to hop another flight to visit the world of the woman forced to give her away years ago. Beautiful, dangerous, haunting, the encounters there will steer the course of her life and marriage with David, which take surprising turns over the next two decades. . Susan’s quest introduces her to the subculture of the adoption search and reunion movement. There she finds a best friend and mentor, Faith. Her story includes her creative, Jewish adoptive parents, her single, immigrant friend Farah, and her college sweetheart-husband David whose father abandoned the family years ago. . There is also the detective who specializes in adoption reunions, who carries a secret of his own. Her poignant meeting with her birth mother uncovers a deeper tragedy, human trafficking, that they will both begin to fight from their very different lives. . Tapioca Fire will take you with Susan to Bangkok, and rural Thailand, Tokyo and Nikko, Japan, as well as the New York suburbs and rugged Maine shores. Tapioca Fire proves the adage that the most perilous part of a quest is the journey back home.

[close] The book club for members of the FCC China playgroup of North Georgia.