The Attachment Chronicles: a blog about special-needs adoption

My unvarnished story about adopting a boy who turned out to have autism.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Happy New Year from our family to yours!


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This is my attempt to tell the true story of my adoption of Quinn, who spent the first 16 months of his life in an orphanage in Beijing. This is the kind of information I was searching for while I waited to adopt from China, so it's the kind I want to share - the joys as well as the challenges.

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Jill
My husband Tom and I adopted our son from China on Nov. 1, 2008. We met Quinn in Beijing two years and 10 months after we started the paper chase.
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My favorite children's books with China/adoption themes

  • A Mother for Choco
  • D is for Dragon Boat
  • Dim Sum for Everyone!

My favorite books about China

  • Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A sweet-sour memoir of eating in China, Fuschia Dunlop
  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
  • Foreign Babes in Beijing, Rachel De Woskin
  • Lost in Translation, Nicole Mones

My favorite non-fiction about adoption

  • A Love Like No Other: Stories from adoptive parents, edited by Pamela Kruger and Jill Smolowe
  • China Ghosts, Jeff Gammage
  • Lucky Girl, Mei-ling Hopgood
  • The Connected Child, Karyn Purvis
  • The Lost Daughters of China, Karin Evans
  • The Lucky Ones: Our stories of adoptive children from China, edited by Ann Rauhala

My favorite adoption-themed fiction

  • The Red Thread, Ann Hood
  • Digging to America, Anne Tyler
  • Run, Ann Patchett

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Quinn at play

Quinn at play
March 2008

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Quinn, a month before we met

Quinn, a month before we met
We thought this photo was so cute when we saw it the week before we went to meet Quinn. Now we know this look as "Uncle Fussy Gus." Thank goodness he doesn't come to visit very often!

One serious boy

One serious boy
Here he is!

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