"At its simplest, this is the story of an adoption. Simple stops
there. How is this different? The 13-year old boy initiates the
process himself None of the boy's living parents has ever met each
other, and they do not share a common language. He comes from one
of the remotest, yet loveliest, locations in the world-the North
Caucasus The "rules" for this process are unfathomable, especially
as he comes to America at precisely the moment the USSR collapses
The parents-all of them-decide to form an extended family, which is
how Siberia comes to a guest house in Bellingham, WA. At every
point where the process seems irremediably impossible, exactly the
right person appears with the powers to cut through the Gordian
knot; over and over again. At the final moment, when everything has
been achieved, the story takes a turn no-one could have
anticipated, and another roller-coaster is set in motion. This is a
book that takes you to Europe's highest mountain, to Moscow in
chaos, to the streets and valleys of Bulgaria, and the palaces of
Vienna, all part of the unimaginable tangle that begins when a
13-year old Russian sends a fax to America. Anyone who has been
involved with adoption, or has contemplated adoption, will feel the
twists and turns, the emotional peaks and valleys. Normally,
international adoptions involve infants, who in effect, start an
entirely new life before they are old enough to remember anything
about their pre-adoption days. On the other hand, a 13-year old: Is
already formed, has a culture and a language (which isn't yours)
Has parents who have raised him-so why would they let him go? He
still loves his birth parents, and they have raised him well. So,
what is going on? Inthis case, has had more than his fair-share of
tragedy, dislocation and trauma, and is in for a lot more before
the book is done The story truly has all the elements of a suspense
novel, and it teaches you never to take anything for granted, never
to give up, and never to think that anything is hopeless. There is
deep, deep sadness in this book, as well as the miracle of two
families fusing into one. There is a lot of laughter too, and many,
many wonderful characters, some of whom could have stepped out of
the pages of Dickens. Furthermore, what happened next-well that is
even more remarkable. But, that is another story.
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