Hola: An Adoption Adventure - Tapa blanda

Hola: An Adoption Adventure is a chronicle of one woman's adventures as she struggles with fear while trying to adopt her infant daughter in a politically stressed third world country. Ultimately, Shaina finds that blind courage and faith are her best tools for survival. Hola is replete with information about the adoption process and its possible pitfalls. It offers a picture of Honduras physically, culturally and politically. At the age of forty-two Shaina, a single, politically naive Jewish woman, decides she would like to raise a child. She begins her search for a healthy infant with a public adoption agency, is recommended to a private religious agency and eventually finds herself exploring "foreign" adoptions. Her quest leads her into Honduras and a Kafkaesque series of events guaranteed to keep the pages turning. Hola includes an illegal lawyer wanted by his government, a kidnapping attempt, a non-supportive adoption agency and a certain amount of the authors' own paranoia. It's filled with action, adventure, suspense, some fantasy and comes complete with a happy ending. This is a true story.

Shaina Maidel was born and raised in the clamor and clutter of New York City, attended a pristine college in up-state New York and spent the next several years tasting the flavor of various spots on the U.S. map. She finally settled in a typical mid-west town where she resides today. Shaina believes each person has a life defining moment. For Shaina, Hannah's adoption was such a moment. It coalesced her past, centered her present and led her into an un-imagined, exciting and fulfilling future. Shaina spent many years as a teacher of pre-school children, many more as a teacher of public school children and an added number of years as a social worker in the public schools. Hannah's adoption forced her into an early retirement to begin her fourth and most challenging career - that of parent. Parenting, she says, has helped her define who she is and how she wants to be in the world. It has given her the joy of guiding a young person through the shoals of childhood ills, into the muddy waters of youthful peer problems, through the raging of teen torments; all the while watching Hannah blossom into the beautiful young woman she's become.