Rainbows from Heaven

Library Journal

efforts made by her and her husband to adopt a child. First, they try the foster-child route without success; then, after several other disappointments, they look into adopting from Ukraine, where their church had ties. Intent on adopting a little girl whose photo they had committed to memory, they find their hopes dashed early on when they discover that she has been reclaimed by her family. Next, they fall in love with two girls from the local orphanage, and, when a third sister is added to the mix, decide to adopt her as well. The remainder of the book provides blow-by-blow descriptions of what complicated the adoption finalization. Bureaucratic nightmares predominatewith more judicial and paper error than can be readily fathomed. By the time the new family arrives home in New Mexico, the odyssey verges on the miraculous. Suitable for large public libraries containing narratives like Robert Klose's Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds a Son in Russia. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.