http://www.amazon.com/Red-Thread-Novel-Ann-Hood/dp/0393070204/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278624520&sr=8-1
I just finished reading this and I cried through the last 15 or so pages. Really emotional exploration of the adoption process. Ann Hood is an author I've known for a long time. I remember as a teen reading Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine.
http://www.amazon.com/Somewhere-Off-Coast-Maine-Novel/dp/0393332357/ref=pd_sim_b_2
I felt it was so sophisticated and modern. I wonder if I would feel the same way now.
Anyway, in 2006 I rediscovered her writing through this horribly sad essay from the Modern Love column of the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/fashion/sundaystyles/26LOVE.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
In that 2006 essay, Hood describes the death of her child. Later, in 2008, I read her "comeback" novel, The Knitting Circle, which was, not surprisingly, about a woman who finds strength after the loss of a child.
http://www.amazon.com/Knitting-Circle-Novel-Ann-Hood/dp/0393330443/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Three and a half years later, Hood wrote this Modern Love column about the adoption of her daughter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/fashion/18Love.html?pagewanted=print
Also in 2008, Hood published a memoir entitled Comfort: A Journey Through Grief.
http://www.amazon.com/Comfort-Journey-Through-Ann-Hood/dp/039333659X/ref=pd_sim_b_3
