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Detachment : an adoption memoir

Mierau, Maurice 1962- (author.). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm), (distributor.).

Summary: "In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to Canada as a proud new family of four. Now what? In Detachment, Mierau probes not only the process of adoption but what comes after -- the challenges of becoming a family, the strain on his marriage. While his son acts out and gets in trouble at school, Mierau feels removed, detached, thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also born in Ukraine, Mierau's Mennonite father has a traumatic and mysterious past of his own. If Mierau can come to understand his father's life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new sons ..." --Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781770484924
ISBN: 9781554812066
Physical Description: remote
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1 electronic text (226 pages)
Publisher: Calgary [Alberta] : Freehand Books, [2014]
Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2017.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Formatted Contents Note:	Shrinking -- Adoption -- Detachment -- Inventing my family -- Back in the USSR -- Cuba -- Home again.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also available in print version.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.