![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, Coco's story reminds us that we depend on family, and that family can take different forms. "You were never ours," Sarah tells Coco, "yet we belong to each other."Ī love letter to Coco, and to the countless children like her, Stranger Care chronicles Sarah's discovery of what it means to mother-in this case, not just a vulnerable infant, but the birth mother who loves her, too. Sarah and Eric bring this newborn stranger home. After years of starts and stops, and endless navigation of the complexities and injustices of the foster care system, a phone call finally comes: a three-day old baby girl, named Coco, in immediate need of a foster family. Despite knowing that the system's goal is reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social workers who question, evaluate, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their family-even if it means most likely having to give them back. Our INSTAGRAM is their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide to adopt via the foster care system. Rediscovered Books welcomes Idaho author Sarah Sentilles for an Instagram LIVE event for her new book Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours. ![]()
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