[N]othing short of stunning. This book will stay with you long after you close the cover. --Lori Holden, author, The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Many adoption memoirs detail the journey that brings parent and child together . . . and end with a loving, triumphant homecoming. Fewer follow the story years down the road, as parents and child knit themselves into a family. Traster holds nothing back in recounting that second journey, to truly become her child's mother. --Eve Gilman, editor, Adoptive Families Magazine
If you are an adoptive parent, don't miss this book. --Jane Ballback, publisher and executive editor, Adoption Voices Magazine
Tina Traster takes us on her roller-coaster ride of becoming an adoptive mother . . . . Many will read this mother's journey of breaking through her daughter's protective shell with strong, deliberate parenting, and they'll know that they are not alone. --Julie Beem, executive director, Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.
Like Jessie Hogsett's helpful Detached , this title is indispensable for adoptive parents, relatives, and teachers. -- Library Journal
Having raised three kids with varying degrees of RAD, I know how much this book is needed! --Julie Valentine, editor, adopting.com
Traster's memoir is simultaneously unnerving and inspirational . The adoption world--and everyone surrounding it (meaning everyone)--needs to better understand the realities that affect so many children being adopted from orphanages today. The timing of this starkly honest book could not be better. --Adam Pertman, president, The Donaldson Adoption Institute, and author of Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution Is Transforming Our Families--and America
A riveting story that takes you on an extraordinary journey with the author, her husband, and Julia, the emotionally constricted daughter they adopted from a Russian orphanage. Their struggle with love and loss, frustration and disappointment, fear and hope will chill and ultimately thrill anyone who is a parent --through birth or adoption--or who is thinking about becoming one. --Gloria Hochman, director of communications, National Adoption Center
Traster's experiences and the way she writes about the realities of adoption are very helpful to everyone raising a child with RAD or thinking of adopting a child who may have RAD. --Irene Clements, president, National Foster Parent Association
This is a book that deserves to be read by all who care about the many Russian children who are now Americans, not just by the families that have adopted them... It is a fast and entertaining read. -- Russian Life
This is not the average I'm-so-lucky, big-group-hug book on the subject. Author and adoptive mother Tina Traster gets real. Since we all know someone who has adopted, it's a must-read... [a] stunning book! --Parents.com
[A] moving memoir. -- Publishers Weekly
Rescuing Julia Twice is a good read to understand the journey of adoptive families and the struggle they sometimes experience parenting children from tough beginnings. --Adoption Today
