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Another Robert review

  • Oct. 12th, 2007 at 8:59 PM

Catherine and Sherry Bunin, Is That Your Sister? (Our Child Press, 1992)

Is That Your Sister? is another of the adoption books I've been
reading recently. It's more vertical-market than the others (as the
title implies, it's about how to deal with questions from ruder
sections of the populace when your parents have adopted a child who
doesn't look much like you), but still holds up quite nicely under
scrutiny. (To clarify and explain that comment: books are like
computer programs. The more vertical-market they are, the shoddier
they tend to be. Think back to the worst of your school textbooks for
an excellent example.) The big drawback is that there's not much there
to hold up for scrutinizing. This isn't to say it's bad-- nothing
impressed itself upon me as really awful (as the creepy pictures in
This Is How We Became a Family), but within two weeks of first reading
it, I had to read it again in order to refresh anything but the basics
of the book's mission in my head. It doesn't stand out either in a
good or a bad way, but that puts it ahead of about 90% of
vertical-market books of any type. Thus, if you are in a situation
like this (if you have adopted children of two different races, for
example, or if you have a birth child and an adopted child from
another country), you may well find this a valuable book to have
around. ***

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