Stranger care : a memoir of loving what isn't ours / Sarah Sentilles.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria ; London : The Text Publishing Company, 2021.Description: xv, 404 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922330956
- Sentilles, Sarah
- Sentilles, Sarah
- Sentilles, Sarah
- Foster parents -- Biography
- Adoptive parents
- Birthparents -- Family relationships
- Custody of children
- Foster children
- Foster children -- Family relationships
- Foster home care
- Foster parents
- Foster children -- United States
- Custody of children -- United States
- Adoption
- Motherhood
- Adoption
- Motherhood
- Adopted children -- United States
- Adoptive parents -- United States
- Foster home care
- Foster parents -- United States -- Biography
- Foster children -- Family relationships -- United States
- Birthparents -- Family relationships -- United States
- United States
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 362.734 SEN | Available | 062911 |
Originally published in the United States of America by Random House.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface -- Show yourself to be a mother -- Family picture -- One of our own -- Maternal impression -- Family tree -- Homesick -- Families belong together -- Flesh and blood -- Big lost -- Flight risk -- No other way -- A tale of two mothers -- Be the tree -- Our girl -- All her belongings -- Epilogue.
After deciding not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, try to adopt a baby through foster care. Knowing that the system aims for reunification with the birth family, they open their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and prepare them to welcome a child into their lives, even if it most likely means giving that child up. After years of starts and stops, the phone call finally comes: a three-day-old baby girl, Coco, in urgent need of a foster family. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. 'You were never ours,' Sarah tells her, 'yet we belong to each other.' A love letter to Coco and to the countless others like her, Stranger Care shares Sarah's discovery of what it means to mother: in this case, not just a vulnerable infant, but also the birth mother who loves the child too. Coco's story is a reminder that we depend on family, and that family can take many different forms. --Foreword.