Make Me a Mother

A Memoir

By: Susanne Antonetta

Narrated by: Karen White

A woman unexpectedly finds her best self through a sleepy bundle handed over at the airport in this heartfelt and surprising memoir.

In Make Me a Mother, acclaimed memoirist Susanne Antonetta adopts an infant from Seoul, South Korea. After meeting their six-month-old son, Jin, at the airport - an incident made memorable when Susanne, so eager to meet her son, is chased down by security - Susanne and her husband learn lessons common to all parents, such as the lack of sleep and the worry and joy of loving a child. They also learn lessons particular to their own family: not just how another being can take over your life but how to let an entire culture in, how to discuss birth parents who gave up a child, and the tricky steps required to navigate race in America.

In the end, her relationship with her son teaches Susanne to understand her own troubled childhood and to forgive and care for her own aging parents. Susanne comes to realize how, time and time again, all families have to learn to adopt one another.

©2014 Suzanne Paola (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Perhaps a good story, not a great narrator

Is there anything you would change about this book?

The book very soon stops being an adoption story and goes all over the place

How could the performance have been better?

I honestly couldn't decide whether this narrator is a real person or a very sophisticated robot