Detachment: An Adoption Memoir
by Maurice Mierau /
2014 / English / EPUB
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In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine
to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of
delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to
Canada as a proud new family of four. Now what?
In 2005, Maurice Mierau and his wife, Betsy, travelled to Ukraine
to adopt two small boys, age three and five. After weeks of
delays while navigating a tangled bureaucracy, they returned to
Canada as a proud new family of four. Now what?
In
InDetachment
Detachment, Mierau probes not only the process of
adoption but what comes after―the challenges of becoming a
family, the strain on his marriage. While his son acts out and
gets in trouble at school, Mierau feels removed, detached,
thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also
born in Ukraine, Mierau’s Mennonite father has a traumatic and
mysterious past of his own. If Mierau can come to understand his
father’s life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new
sons…
, Mierau probes not only the process of
adoption but what comes after―the challenges of becoming a
family, the strain on his marriage. While his son acts out and
gets in trouble at school, Mierau feels removed, detached,
thinking instead about his own emotionally distant father. Also
born in Ukraine, Mierau’s Mennonite father has a traumatic and
mysterious past of his own. If Mierau can come to understand his
father’s life, perhaps he can start to make sense of his new
sons…Detachment
Detachment is a moving, darkly funny, and searingly
unsentimental memoir about learning to become a father and a son.
is a moving, darkly funny, and searingly
unsentimental memoir about learning to become a father and a son.
