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The Other Face of the Moon: Finding My Indian Family
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers (2006-04-10)
ISBN: 184024495X
EAN: 9781840244953
Paperback: 320 pages
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Customer Reviews
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Hybrid Identity, Internation Adoption & India
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-19
`The Other Face of the Moon' is a simply and beautifully told memoir by Asha Miro as she travels back to India to discover more about her adoption and herself. Having been adopted at a young age by Spanish parents, Miro returns to her homeland with mixed emotions. This book delightfully looks at the increasingly common themes of hybrid identity and nationality, and is a touchingly honest account of Miro's self exploration as she journeys through India and her history. The certainty of truth and facts are called into question as is the binary: nature vs. nurture. Read this book if you are interested in India, identity and/or international adoption. I'd highly recommend this to anyone at all! If you like this book you'll also like `Yadav' by Jill Lowe.
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Personal journey
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-07-20
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This thoughtful and moving book has opened my eyes to a subject I previously knew very little about. International adoption is a long and difficult road for families and communities. Asha Miro elegantly describes her earliest memories in India, the life she and her fellow orphans endured before she was adopted by spanish parents in the seventies, when international adoption was still a relatively new thing.
In her late twenties Miro makes the difficult decision to travel back to India to find her roots, only to find herself an alien in her own culture. Her struggle to find her own cultural identity is poignant, as is her reunion with her long lost sister. An very moving read.
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True Family Ties
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-05-19
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Asha Miró was born in India and adopted by a Spanish couple when she was seven years old. She writes about her adopted parents with so much grace and tenderness that I am now thoroughly convinced that genetics mean next to nothing; it is love, and only love, that is the true measure of a family.
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