“What if?” Kate Atkinson asks

Choose your own adventure What if I’d taken that path instead of the other? Kate Atkinson’s novel “Life After Life” is a grown-up choose-your-own-adventure book. Atkinson takes the story down…
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A Birthmother in a Novel

Izzie in Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” The baby would be adopted as swiftly as possible. “A respectable German couple, unable to have their own child,” Adelaide said. Sylvie tried to imagine…
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Adoption in Literature

  Rumpelstiltskin I’ve been fascinated by adoption in literature ever since my mother read me Rumpelstiltskin. The miller’s daughter escaped relinquishing her son in the end. But the possibility of…
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