![]() Heffron’s memoir begins, “Most of my life I have felt both real and not real.” The only way to make sense of her story, “to bring the two parts of together,” she reasoned, would be to write it down. As the mother of three biological children, she adopted two boys from Ethiopia and makes a passionate case for increasing international adoptions. She recalls the shock she felt as a child, when her parents began fostering, of realizing that some children didn’t have their own family. Silverman, a rabbi raised in a family of atheists who has affectionately called her sister, the comedian Sarah, the “least funny” one in their family, has written a memoir brimming with humor and heart. Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World, by Susan Silverman ![]()
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