Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits : A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families

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Summary: Useful information; unpoetic title
Review: This book contains useful information for multicultural families, and is recommended notwithstanding the clunky title.

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Summary: A Valuable Resource
Review: This book is a valuable resource for all who are living in a multicultural family, or who want to create one. It focuses to a large extent on families with children adopted abroad. These families are multi-ethnic but not necessarily multi-cultural. It is a daunting task for a parent to try to teach a child about a cultural heritage that the parent does not share. "Dim Sum, Bagels and Grits" can help those families take that first step. It is also useful for families that are mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity by birth.

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Summary: What A Silly Book - Don't Waste Your Time Or Money
Review: This book seemed at once superficial and pointless. It is about....nothing at all save some ravings about "multicultural" families that ring false at every note. One has to wonder why, with such an emphasis on multicultural and non nuclear families in the beginning of the 21st century how a meandering and pandering text like this ever got published. You want a really great read on the issue: try THE RUSSIAN WORD FOR SNOW, a newly published adoption story that touches upon multicultural issues at their deepest -- not this hopeless missive that touches on so very little.