Thanks for the reviews. I was curious and clicked through to the Klune interview. My sense is his heart is in the right place but he was working from a very naive world view.
Let me add, I haven't read the book so I could be way off the mark. Still, I get the idea he isn't familiar with the Indian Child Welfare Act or the issues it was intended to address. If he was, it might have steered him around some very large landmines and given him a better sense of what he was wading into.
Cross-cultural adoption is contentious as anything out here in the world. C refused to apply for his tribal card because he didn't feel he had the cultural grounding, even though he met the blood guidelines. A sensitivity reader aware of the issues might have made a difference.
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Date: 2021-09-11 10:02 pm (UTC)Let me add, I haven't read the book so I could be way off the mark. Still, I get the idea he isn't familiar with the Indian Child Welfare Act or the issues it was intended to address. If he was, it might have steered him around some very large landmines and given him a better sense of what he was wading into.
Cross-cultural adoption is contentious as anything out here in the world. C refused to apply for his tribal card because he didn't feel he had the cultural grounding, even though he met the blood guidelines. A sensitivity reader aware of the issues might have made a difference.