Book Review - Finding Aster

About the Book
Finding Aster—our Ethiopian adoption story is a fascinating memoir that follows one woman’s journey to motherhood via international adoption. Dina’s process begins with major surgery that leaves her unable to bear children. After recovery begins and burgeoning health finds her ready to discover what’s next, she and her husband decide to become parents. The journey that began in illness pushes Dina into places she never thought she would go, both within herself as a woman, and in the outside world to Africa. Finding Aster is a must-read for all people considering parenthood. Important sections present controversial topics surrounding infertility, overpopulation, and the state of international adoption. In the end, Dina openly expresses with a clear and focused voice that choosing adoption to grow a family need not be a last resort.


About the Author:
In 1998 Dina received her Master’s Degree in Biography/Autobiography from Vermont’s Goddard College. Prior to Dina’s graduate study research, she came upon her grandfather Robert J. Wolff ’s manuscript, The Man From Highbelow. Fascinated with his story of awakening as an artist, and the way that through discovering his life she better understood and accepted who she was, Dina decided to dedicate her life to facilitating the writing of memoir. Since then, she has helped dozens of writers discover the story they want to tell, and helped them write and publish their memoirs. Dina is the 2006 New Mexico Discovery Award winner in the category of Fiction. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Brian, and daughter, Aster.




My Take on the Book
This was a great story of love and persistence. This story was a very personal story that shared the journey that the author and her husband went through to adopt a Ethiopian child.

I have seen first hand the struggle that people go through to become adoptive parents and this book does a great job in sharing their experiences and resources with others like themselves that may be working to adopt an international child.

The story itself was a story that draws you in and has you appreciating the passion of parents like themselves and showing you the love between parents and their child.

I would highly recommend this story to all!


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