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Sandra Hanks Benoiton writes from Paradise Preoccupied for International Adoption Blogs

She’s shaking things up, which has to be the first uncomfortable, perhaps even frightening, step toward positive change … even more reason to support her work, which is easily done by buying, reading and discussing her book.

Now, to the interview …

SHB:
As someone spending time in Cambodia, what is your impression or experience regarding children being abandoned in the country today?

Read the interview click here

 Sandra Hanks Benoitin has the best blog on the internet for news and discussion the issues around International Adoption.

She is the second stop on our blog book tour.  Her review of Bones That Float starts:

” ['Bones that Float'] … is truly a gift for every adoptive family out there.”

This quote came from an adoptive mom after reading Kari Grady Grossman’s wonderful new book about the Cambodia she came to know and love through her family’s adoption journey.

Much more than a story of one child and one family, “Bones that Float: A Story of Adopting Cambodia” is a tapestry of Cambodian lives, past, present and future, that conveys context and encourages the reader to follow threads from that lead from the cozy sofa that is America, from the swinging baby basket of an orphanage, from the bed of nails that is Cambodia under the reign of terror of the Khmer Rouge, and from the back of a moto in present day Phnom Penh. The result is a process of unfolding understanding, and as one parent put it, peace.    More…

Sandra asked Kari some thought provoking questions in her interview here.