Tales from the Fatherland av Ben Fergusson

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<p><b>''A writer of genuine accomplishment'' <i>Good Book Guide</i></b><br><br><b>A story of adoption and queer parenting from the award-winning author of <i>The Spring of Kasper Meier</i>, <i>The Other Hoffmann Sister </i>and <i>An Honest Man</i></b><br><br><i>A pause. ''Ah, Herr Fergusson. It''s Frau Schwenk.'' Our social worker, I now understood. ''Thank you for getting back to me. I''m calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.''</i><br><br>In 2018, after the introduction of marriage equality in Germany, Ben Fergusson and his German husband Tom became one of the first same-sex married couples to adopt in the country. In <i>Tales from the Fatherland</i> Fergusson reflects on his long journey to fatherhood and the social changes that enabled it. He uses his outsider status as both a gay father and a parent adopting in a foreign country to explore the history and sociology of fatherhood and motherhood around the world, queer parenting and adoption and, u