Adopting Alyosha: A Single Man Finds A Son In Russia; Author: Klose, Robert; Hardback; Book

Author: Klose, Robert
Hardback; Book
176 pages
Published: April 1999
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1578061199

This is the first book to be written by a single man adopting from abroad. The narrative of his quest serves as an instructional first-hand manual for single men wishing to adopt. It details the prospective father's heightening sense of anticipation as he untangles bureaucratic snarls and addresses cultural differences involved in adopting a foreign child.When he arrives in Russia, he supposes the adoption will be a matter of following cut-and-dried procedures. Instead, his difficulties are only beginning. Although he meets kind and generous Russians, his encounter with the childwelfare system in Moscow turns out to be both chaotic and bizarre. However, his dogged ordeal pays off more bountifully than he ever could have hoped. In the end he comes face to face with a little boRecounts the twenty-eight month struggle for the author, a single man, to adopt a child from a Moscow orphanage.