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Behind Child Protection: A Conversation with District Child Protection Officer Leena Kallammanavar
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“Despite It All, I Made It Through”: Author R. Marin on Writing His Way Through His Own Adoption Story
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“Nobody Wants to Adopt a Black Boy”: Racism and Bias in the Adoption World
By Teesta Bhola-Shah For many families, adoption is presented as a beautiful, uncomplicated story about love. But for my own mother, Devi Bhola, the adoption process revealed something far more uncomfortable: a system deeply shaped by racism, like many things in our society. During a candid interview about our family’s experience adopting my younger brother,…
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How A Photo Book Changed My Family Forever
By Teesta Bhola-Shah When people hear the word adoption, they usually picture a happy ending. A baby comes home, a family is complete, everyone smiles in the courtroom photo, and that’s the story. But after sitting down and interviewing my mom about my younger brother Jay’s adoption, I realized how much people do not see…
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Behind the Scenes: How Literary Agent Alessandra Sternfeld Helped Bring ‘A Mosquito in the Ear’ to Life
In a story as personal and emotionally layered as A Mosquito in the Ear, the role of a literary agent is to refine language and shape pacing throughout the story, but also to preserve what is important and what isn’t. For Alessandra Sternfeld, senior agent at am-book, the responsibility was to protect Andrea Ferraris’s story…
