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Anna Nordberg May 4, 2021
“Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours” by Sarah Sentilles Photo: Random House
What does it mean to love a child who doesn’t belong to you? This is the central question of “Stranger Care,” and by asking it, author Sarah Sentilles shines a light or beams a heat lamp on all the ways there are to love, be a parent and experience loss.
In prose so gripping it reads like a thriller, Sentilles describes the choices that led to the moment when she and her husband are on the phone with a social worker, saying yes to fostering a 3-day-old girl. She leads us through her 30-something ambivalence about children; her realization she wants a baby; her husband’s resistance; and their compromise to try to adopt through the foster care system.
12 classical music performances to stir and soothe winter of our discontent
Updated Jan 13, 2021;
Even though the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on musical organizations everywhere, artists have dug deeper to find ways to connect with audiences. Portland is fortunate to have excellent online options that will broadcast familiar and new works, including the dozen mentioned here.
- Portland Opera s 2020/21 Resident Artists (from left) Michael Parham, Lynnesha Crump, David Morgans Sanchez, Edwin Jhamal Davis, and Jasmine Johnson.Photo by Gia Goodrich
Resident Artist Series – Portland Opera
It is always fun to hear some of the best up-and-coming singers before they are discovered by everyone else. Portland Opera’s Resident Artist Program has an excellent record of finding such talent. This year’s crop will be beamed live from the Hampton Opera Center in three programs of solos, duets, and ensemble numbers accompanied by coach and pianist Joseph Williams. The first program