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Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption,Used
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An adoption professional once told me, At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemalas. At its worst, there is none worse.from the foreword by Kevin KreutnerIn Between Light and Shadow veteran journalist Jacob Wheeler puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which has exploited, embraced, and sincerely sought to improve the lives of the Central American nations poorest children. Fourteenyearold Ellie, abandoned at age seven and adopted by a middleclass family from Michigan, is at the center of this story. Wheeler recreates the painful circumstances of Ellies abandonment, her adoption and Americanization, her search for her birth mother, and her joyous and haunting return to Guatemala, where she finds her teenage brothersunleashing a bond that transcends language and national borders.Following Ellies journey, Wheeler peels back the layers of an adoption economy that some view as an unscrupulous babyselling industry that manipulates impoverished indigenous Guatemalan women, and others herald as the only chance for poor children to have a better life. Through Ellie, Wheeler allows us to see what all this means in personal and practical termsand to understand how wellintentioned and sometimes humanitarian firstworld wealth can collide with the extreme poverty, despair, misogyny, racism, and violent history of Guatemala.
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