Gifts from the Silk Road: A Father's Adoption Memoir

Adoption is almost as old and natural as childbirth itself. It is an incredible journey and one that has all the possibilities, risks, fears, wonder and fulfillment that any birth can have. But often the fears outweigh the promise for some couples who contemplate adoption. This may especially be true for fathers who have to "buy-in" to this method of parenthood. Is there a special anxiety that goes into a potential adoptive father's thoughts? This is the story of adoption from a father's perspective. One who had his doubts - not about adoption - but of himself and parenting. As this father sorts through his feelings, he does so amidst a very foreign background... Kazakhstan. Not the land of Borat but of the open land that served as the highway between East and West for centuries. This is how one adoption story turned out and how the father struggled with his own thoughts and doubts and where he arrived after the journey.