Digging to America

Luckily, this was a short book and a quick read, or I wouldn't have finished it.

I am disappointed in Tyler for this book - although I haven't read any of her other books to compare her research methods. In the author's interview which was printed in the back of my edition, she loftily says she didn't feel the need to talk to anyone who had either adopted a child or who had been adopted into a different culture. Indeed, although she starts her book following the lives of the adopted children, it quickly becomes apparent that she's much more interested in the nonexistant love lives of their grandparents - and could easily have skipped the entire international adoption for all it mattered to the second half of the book.