* BOOK OF THE YEAR award winner, from the National Adoption Foundation. * AMERICA'S GREATEST CONTRIBUTOR to public awareness about adoption, from the Dave Thomas Center for Adoption Law. * AMERICA'S GREATEST CONTRIBUTOR to public education about adoption, from the American Adoption Congress. * YEAR 2000 JOURNALISM AWARD for reporting on children and families, from Holt International Children's Services. * LEONARD SILK JOURNALISM AWARD, from the Century Foundation.

"Adoption Nation" is a groundbreaking work that examines both the historic metamorphosis taking place within the world of adoption and the extraordinary changes our country is undergoing as a result. It looks at all the issues involved: from foster care to international and domestic adoption, from the growth of open adoption to the burgeoning use of the internet, from infertility to the sealing of adoptees' birth certificates -- and much, much more. And it does all this through compelling real-life stories, with compassion and insight. More than anything, this is the first book to show how profoundly adoption now affects all of our lives.

Professionals are calling this “the most important book ever written on the subject” and “must reading" for members of the adoption triad, academics, pratitioners and anyone simply interested in the subject. People within adoption are lauding "Adoption Nation" for the honesty with which it describes both the process's rewards and its problems, particularly the corrosive role of big money. And reviewers are praising it as a “hopeful and sometimes haunting book,” as "a treasure and a call to action," and as an “important sociological text that reads like a novel.”