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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Maine Author Series
DESCRIPTION:Adopting Anton\nA Single Man Seeks a Son in Ukraine\nby Robert 
 Klose\nAuthor reading followed by discussion.  Library Reading Room.\nAbo
 ut Adopting Anton\nSingle women have a long and successful track record as
  adoptive parents\, but single men seeking to adopt have had a tougher tim
 e of it. And yet the need for role models in this regard exists\, if for n
 o other reason than to offer hope to those men who want to adopt but are d
 aunted by the seeming immensity of the challenge. Available children tend 
 to live in countries that are both traditional and conservative and think 
 in terms of "mother and child" but rarely "father and child." Presuming th
 at his already being an adoptive parent (he had previously adopted a boy f
 rom a Russian orphanage) would make a second attempt easier\, Robert Klose
  was nevertheless confronted by a Ukrainian bureaucracy hobbled by its Sov
 iet origins\, as well as the vagaries of personalities in whose hands his 
 fate would rest. The result is a harrowing narrative full of characters bo
 th picaresque and sympathetic\, with all the actors\, including the author
 \, playing their roles in the chaotic aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist atta
 cks. Adopting\nAnton is the story of a single man's determination to bring
  a five-year-old boy to a new home in America\, but not knowing\, until th
 e last moment\, whether his efforts would result in failure or success.\nA
 uthor Profile\nRobert Klose teaches at the University of Maine. He is a re
 gular contributor of essays to The Christian Science Monitor. His work has
  also appeared in Newsweek\, The Boston Globe\, and various literary magaz
 ines. His books include Adopting Alyosha — A Single Man Finds a Son in R
 ussia\, Small Worlds — Adopted Sons\, Pet Piranhas\, and Other Mortal Co
 ncerns\, The Three-Legged Woman &amp\; Other Excursions in Teaching\, The 
 Legend of the River Pumpkins\, and the novels\, Long Live Grover Cleveland
 \, which won a 2016 Ben Franklin Literary Award and a USA BookNews Award\,
  and Life on Mars\, which was a finalist in the International Book Awards\
 , American Fiction Awards\, and American Book Fest. He is also a four-time
  winner of the Maine Press Association award for Opinion writing.
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