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Behind Child Protection: A Conversation with District Child Protection Officer Leena Kallammanavar
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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…
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Sarvari Ferraris and the Inspiration Behind ‘A Mosquito in the Ear’
By Teesta Bhola-Shah A Mosquito in the Ear is not your typical coming-of-age story. Told through the lens of a graphic novel, it follows the journey of one family’s international adoption experience, tracing the story of a young girl from India into a new family, and the challenges and connections that unfold along the way.…
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Drawing a Family Into Being: Andrea Ferraris and the Story Behind A Mosquito in the Ear
For Andrea Ferraris, storytelling has never been a choice, it has always been instinct. Long before his story A Mosquito in the Ear became an internationally recognized graphic novel and film, it was his family’s personal experience, one that Ferraris felt compelled to capture in the only way he knew how.
