This book brings up important themes around the topic of adoption, particularly transracial adoptions, and really challenges the ignorance the world can often have towards adoption— simply seeing it as this beautiful, life-changing thing for the adoptee, without realizing the complex journey, and oftentimes painful experiences, that are impactful for the adoptee and the adoptee’s family. Sometimes I find myself correcting him based on some earlier version I’ve heard from his mother or sister.

About a third of the way into this beautiful debut novel, I wondered why this book hadn't existed long before. The result is a unique, gorgeously textured narrative that explores the boundaries of familial love .We also spoke about cultural narratives about female authorship and desire, especially in light of the US Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. i loved that this was like a letter and had the narrator talking to her brother, but with that i was also hoping for a range of emotions and for it to feel a bit more heartfelt and sensitive.

Close while they were growing up despite the six-year difference in age, a rift has come between them in recent years.While the character is fiction, the common characteristics of an ESOL student being treated as if they had a disability is a reality many kids face and it’s not uncommon for adoptive parents to prefer thinking the problem is within the child, not the process they child has been put through. Sally Mann commented her children seemed only concerned over being portrayed as "geeks" and showed no concern over nudity.