Adopted Miracles: The Story of Our Family

by Anamika Mukherjee

About the Book: Adopted Miracles: The Story of Our Family An achingly honest adoption memoir There may be people who hold their adopted babies for the very first time and know right away that this is their baby. I am not one of them. I looked at the twins and I knew that they were somebody elses babies. An honest, tell-all memoir of adoption, this book reveals what the experience is really like for all involved: the family, the parents, people around them, even the children. Coping with infertility and the trauma of fertility treatments, craving motherhood and envying other families, dealing with the strain of all this on her marriage, the nitty-gritty of the adoption procedures and, finally, relating to her children-theres nothing Anamika Mukherjee shies away from. This is the story of one family. It is the story of one adoption, yes, but its also about a woman and her dream, and about understanding that if a dream cannot be realized one way, there may be-there has to be-another way. And so, it is a tale of trial and triumph, a story of struggle and success. About the Author: Anamika Mukherjee Anamika Mukherjee has spent over a decade in the field of communication and publishing. She began her career as a leisure and lifestyle journalist in Delhi, then transitioned smoothly to website content writer, then to instructional designer and currently works as a technical writer in Bangalore. Her first book, Worth Every Gasp (Prakash Books, 2012), tells the tales of her adventures while trekking solo in the Western Himalayas. In addition to writing, she enjoys travel, photography, playing tennis, and going shopping with her girls.

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 8, 2014

Reviews

[Manisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Name of the book: Adopted Miracles – The story of our family
Author: Anamika Mukherjee
Publisher: Harper Collins India
No of pages: 200
Price: 299
About the book:
The back cover of this book tells everything about the book. It’s a true story about the experience of adoption and the strings attached to it. The author doesn’t shy away from disclosing her life’s most important issue to her readers. She talks about everything – right from trying to conceive, visits to infertility clinics, the mental exhaustion that follows and finally the decision of adoption, then follows the journey to Pondicherry, the adoption of twin girls, the paperwork associated, and the change in lifestyle.
The author is very much honest and certain about displaying her feelings. There are small incidents which display the hurt, the anguish of not having kids and pretending to be happy for friends’ during their pregnancy times. The incidents she recalls are very much appealing and pain can be felt. Their decision of adoption and the mental preparation they do, the actual schedule after they bring the twins home is described perfectly.
The chapters in the book are well formed and the language is very fluent. Since it’s a true life memoir, it succeeds in its purpose of sharing the author entire experience of infertility and child adoption. Kudos to the author for such honest and true writing!

[Toolika Wadhwa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adopted Miracles is a first person account of a young woman who discovers that she cannot have children by natural childbirth. The ordeal of tests, and of the umpteen people asking for "good news" is described in a straight forward yet powerfully emotional manner. As a reader, I can imagine the discomfort experienced for years in coming to terms with the inability to "bear" children. In a society that tends to judge people, men and women, on the basis of their fertility, it can be simply painful. Instances of insensitivity on the part of others have been mentioned here and there. However, I am sure that there would have been many more instances which have not made it to the pages of the book.
Full review on kitaabikhazana.blogspot.com

[Venkat Srinivasan · Rating 1 out of 5]

A ghastly terribly written book, that's only about pessimism and troubles. Do not ever buy and read it, unless you want to be disheartened.

[Ipshita Saxena · Rating 3 out of 5]

I bought this book by being impressed with the synopsis behind the book, I expected adopted miracles to be a malencholic and emotionally exhausting narration, but the length the of the book doesn't allow the reader's to be engrossed in a poignant emotion and will definitely make you marvel at the issue of the book but the deficiency of extensive storyline will leave you disheartened. Adopted Miracles, is the story of mothers journey of failed attempts to get her share of morning sickness, the pregnancy classes, funny labour room stories to brag about, due to the lack of fertility, the couple revert to adoption. Since the book is based on real life story, it gives brief and crisp account of each stage of a mother of adopted daughters life without adding any factual and public demanding drama. The idea of respecting and loving an adopted girlchild unconditional and irrevocably proporgated by the author has set a benchmark and an example for sexists in our society.

[Aruna Kumar Gadepalli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy and quick read. The book deals with adoption by the couple, reasons and the proceeds of adoption. How finally they knitted into family.