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Adopting Alyosha : a single man finds a son in Russia / Robert Klose.
LIBRA HV875.5 .K59 1999
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Van Pelt Library HV875.5 .K59 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klose, Robert.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Klose, Robert.
- Intercountry adoption--United States--Case studies.
- Intercountry adoption.
- Intercountry adoption--Russia--Case studies.
- Adoptive parents--United States--Biography.
- Adoptive parents.
- United States.
- Russia.
- Single fathers--United States--Biography.
- Single fathers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1999]
- Summary:
- This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional first-hand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child.
- When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the child welfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boy who changes his life forever.
- ISBN:
- 1578061199
- OCLC:
- 39498621
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