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"In this heartwarming and hilarious memoir, Claude Knobler describes how he learned the hard way that the apple actually can fall far from the tree-and that's Okay. Already the biological parents of a seven-year-old son and a five-year-old daughter, Claude Knobler and his wife decided to adopt Nati, a five-year-old Ethiopian boy who seemed different from Knobler in every conceivable way. After more than five years spent trying to turn his wild, silly, adopted African son into a quiet, neurotic, Jewish guy like himself, Knobler realized the importance of having the courage to love, accept, and…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2016Penguin Publishing Group · 272 pages · 9780399176388
- Other · English · 2014Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) · 252 pages · 9780399167959
Intercountry adoptionAdoptive parentsAdopted childrenInterracial adoptionUnited states, social life and customsEthiopia, social life and customs







