Make Me A Mother: A Memoir

Reviews

“Antonetta’s generous, humbling take on adoption adds another layer to today’s vastly “changing landscape of family,” where couples seeking adoption don’t necessarily have infertility issues and ethnic make-up tends more toward the richly diverse.” 

- Publisher’s Weekly, starred review

“Antonetta beautifully demonstrates through her book that motherhood is a process of becoming, that mothers are shaped by our children just as children are shaped by their mothers, and that it is a process that never ends. She writes, “Jin has made me the mother I am and I have made him the son he is.” Antonetta’s willingness to share details of her difficult past and her own self-doubts as a mother make her a trustworthy narrator, and her inclusive understanding of adoption makes her particular story of formal adoption across continents into a universal story that any reader who has brought others—children, parents, friends—into her heart with intention can relate to.”

- Andrea Lani, Literary Mama