A review by triciatea
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Memoir by Jillian Lauren

4.0

Jillian Lauren gives a vulnerable, raw look at her adoption of an Ethiopian child. The parts that resonated the most with me were the beginning and end - the difficulties she had conceiving, the emotionality of that, and later on, when she finally "got what she wanted," which on some level was the ability to provide what her child needed. There were some chapters in the middle about all the various challenges and stigmas she faced after she and her husband brought their kid home that felt redundant. But I supposed they were a necessary to show how many tactics and ways they tried to cope with the situation they were in.