Reveals the history of how 3,000 Greek children were shipped to the United States for adoption in the postwar period

In the midst of the Cold War, these children-many the sons and daughters of Greek leftists-became pawns in the global battle for democracy. In this powerful, un

How adoption and its literary representations shed new light on notions of value, origins, and identity

Rereads 20th-century American literature as it has portrayed adoption across racial lines, from Faulkner to Kingsolver

At the height of the Greek Civil War in 1948, 38,000 children were evacuated from their homes in the mountains of northern Greece and relocated to orphanages an