People love stories. They need stories.

When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.

I think my stubbornness has served me well. I just knew at an early age what I wanted to do and I was determined to be able to make it happen, no matter how long it took.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.