{"product_id":"between-light-and-shadow-a-guatemalan-girls-journey-through-adoption-hardcover","title":"Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey Through Adoption - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob R. Wheeler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKevin Kreutner\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An adoption professional once told me, 'At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemala's. At its worst, there is none worse.'\"--from the foreword by Kevin Kreutner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBetween Light and Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e veteran journalist Jacob Wheeler puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which has exploited, embraced, and sincerely sought to improve the lives of the Central American nation's poorest children. Fourteen-year-old Ellie, abandoned at age seven and adopted by a middle-class family from Michigan, is at the center of this story. Wheeler re-creates the painful circumstances of Ellie's abandonment, her adoption and Americanization, her search for her birth mother, and her joyous and haunting return to Guatemala, where she finds her teenage brothers--unleashing a bond that transcends language and national borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing Ellie's journey, Wheeler peels back the layers of an adoption economy that some view as an unscrupulous baby-selling industry that manipulates impoverished indigenous Guatemalan women, and others herald as the only chance for poor children to have a better life. Through Ellie, Wheeler allows us to see what all this means in personal and practical terms--and to understand how well-intentioned and sometimes humanitarian first-world wealth can collide with the extreme poverty, despair, misogyny, racism, and violent history of Guatemala.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob Wheeler is a freelance journalist, editor at TheUptake.org, and publisher of the \u003cem\u003eGlen Arbor Sun\u003c\/em\u003e (Michigan). His writings have appeared in \u003cem\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/em\u003e among other publications. Kevin Kreutner is the father of two children from Guatemala and the chief writer for the popular GuatAdopt.com website.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacob Wheeler is a freelance journalist, editor at TheUptake.org, and publisher of the \u003ci\u003eGlen Arbor Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (Michigan). His writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eIn These Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e among other publications. Kevin Kreutner is the father of two children from Guatemala and the chief writer for the popular GuatAdopt.com website.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.75 x 5.79 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468589613309,"sku":"9780803233621","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/RTNyWW9udythc0Y3Vy9aaGZWZHZQZz09.webp?v=1777290525","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/between-light-and-shadow-a-guatemalan-girls-journey-through-adoption-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}