The Russian Word for Snow: A True Story of Adoption Book

The Russian Word for Snow takes us from Newman's efforts to become pregnant (Chinese herbs that tasted like dirt, a uterine alignment from a New Age masseuse), to the first time she saw the videotape of the little boy who would become her son (lying naked on a metal changing table while a woman in a babushka tried to make him smile for the camera), to the month she and her husband were forced to remain in Moscow during the turmoil of Russia's first democratic election.In this memoir, Newman describes how her mother's death from breast cancer influenced her decision to have a child."Pregnancy seemed the antithesis of cancer; another condition that caused cells to multiply and divide, but with an entirely opposite result."And how her son Alex, reacted to videotape of himself in a Moscow orphanage."Actually, that was another baby.I was in France."Told with humor and grace, The Russian Word for Snow is a tribute to all the ways we choose to makeRead More