The Taming Power of the Small Summary

During the first afternoon that Karin and Kelly spend alone, Karin is delighted with the easy way that Kelly has become comfortable with her. Karin will always remember that afternoon as she and her new daughter bonded with giggles and long looks into each other's eyes.

For the next ten days, Karin, Mark and Kelly join the other adoptive families in the group for touring and dinners. Most of the parents cannot imagine their lives before their new daughters, and the babies seem to blossom more with each day.

Max still functions as the liaison between the government offices and the new parents and shepherds them to the Chinese medical clinic, where the babies receive checkups and inoculations. He also takes them to the U.S. Consulate, where the parents are interviewed one...