While adoption as a plot device pervades popular culture from Shirley Temple to Star Wars, it’s rarely the stuff of serious contemporary fiction or poetry. Or so I thought until I read A Ghost at Heart’s Edge, the dazzling literary anthology edited by Susan Ito and Tina Cervin.
How I Explained Adoption to the First Grade
Using a favorite doll and a logic children can follow, one mother enlightens her daughter’s curious class about adoption.