<p><strong>Is it possible to stay hopeful - and to keep a sense of humor - </strong></p>
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<li><strong>While your deepest desire is threatened? </strong></li>
<li><strong>When you're falsely accused? </strong></li>
<li><strong>When people you trust advise you to hide your heritage?</strong></li>
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<p>Melanie Herz Promecene, who <strong>faced each of those challenges while trying to adopt a child</strong>, is walking proof that the answer is yes.<br />
In this <strong>staggeringly honest, often hilarious, always hopeful memoir,</strong> Promecene takes readers with her through the terror of 9/11 in New York, the floods of Hurricane Harvey in Houston, the winding streets of Beijing, and a beautiful day in Florence. And, of course, readers join her as<strong> she overcomes seemingly impossible obstacles of bureaucracy and biology.</strong><br />
Her account of heartbreaking decisions,innocent misunderstandings that threaten to have devastating results, and the quirks and joy of her own large family are <strong>compelling and ultimately heartwarming.</strong><br />
Along the way, she realizes that she and her husband aren't choosing their son: <em>He</em> is choosing <em>them.</em><br />
You'll never look at rainbows the same way.</p>