Title: this book is too superficial and badly written
Product review: The only reason I give this book even two stars is that it's written by a birth mother, which is pretty unusual. Unfortunately, we do not get enough of her own and her son's stories; it is not a memoir. Neither is it a well-researched informational book about adoption. The information it contains is pretty superficial. (To give an idea, the author cites People magazine for the earth-shattering news that some foreign-born adoptees are now searching for their roots.) It's also not very well-written: despite her boast that ``literature and language have always been part of my life'' as a translator and publisher, the author comes across as not only stilted but downright ungrammatical. In short, I found this book a boring read and not worth the effort. Too bad, because there aren't many books out there from the birth mother's perspective.
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