CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter One: Conception

Chapter Two: The Adoptive Industrial Complex

Chapter Three: Are You My Mother?

Chapter Four: Jimmy

Chapter Five: Take Five

Chapter Six: Rock Tumbler

Chapter Seven: Nuclear Family

Chapter Eight: Susie

Chapter Nine: A New Normal

Chapter Ten: Haunted House

Chapter Eleven: You Can’t Be Serious

Chapter Twelve: Anthony

Chapter Thirteen: Grafting a Family Tree

Chapter Fourteen: Use Your Words

Chapter Fifteen: Lawful

Chapter Sixteen: Jason

Chapter Seventeen: Ann Fox

Chapter Eighteen: Silent Spring

Chapter Nineteen: Do the Math

Chapter Twenty: White Mom

Chapter Twenty-One: Ruby

Chapter Twenty-Two: See Ya Sucker

Chapter Twenty-Three: State of the Union

Chapter Twenty-Four: Late Night Thoughts

Chapter Twenty-Five: Bio Mom

Chapter Twenty-Six: Opposite House

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Audrey

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Mortal Coil

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Quodlibet

Chapter Thirty: How Many Roads

Epilogue

Acknowledgments