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Multi-award-winning children’s book author, and writer Uma Krishnaswami has written on a variety of topics, spoken to audiences across North America and Asia, and has had her books translated into 11 languages. In our interview, we asked Uma specifically about her book, Bringing Asha Home, a book, primarily about an interracial couple and their biracial son adopting a little girl, Asha, from India and their emotional highs and lows as they go through the long process of international adoption.

One year ago today, we ambitiously launched theParentVoice, with every intention of making it the go-to resource for multiethnic, multiracial, multilingual, and multicultural families. We wanted it to be the voice for parents and families to narrate and share our experiences, perhaps even provide insights to other families like ours as well as learn from each others’ lived realities.

Bringing Asha Home by Uma Krishnaswami. Illustrations by Jamel Akib I am not an adoptive mother or child. Yet, there is something about this book that instantaneously connects with me. So much so, that every time I read it to my son, I cannot do so with getting emotional. Premise: An interracial couple made up of an Indian father and a white mother, parents to a biological son, Arun, are in the process of adopting a little girl, Asha, from India.