... Sentilles shines a light — or beams a heat lamp — on all the ways there are to love, be a parent and experience loss.

Not far into [Sentilles's] heart-searing memoir, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, the complications begin.

... gut-wrenching.

With nimble prose spanning many brief, titled chapters, Sentilles shares the practical, transcendent, and disheartening realities of fostering, alongside evocative descriptions of various forms of stranger care in nature, among trees, birds, and whales.

Sentilles (Draw Your Weapons) describes her experience of adoption and foster care in this memoir of grief and beauty.