A very nice woman wrote to me the other day, "Your book has become 'water cooler conversation'!" I love this sort of good news.

I hope so. Nothing would be better, immediately more warming to me, than the topics of::
poverty, in of all its manifestations
fatherlessness
adoption
fostering
mentoring
community organizing
African-American studies
Latino studies
"race" (I'm never comfortable with that word)
early childhood education
public education
public housing
our judicial system - prison policy and practices
& similar & related topics...

becoming every day focuses for discussion among us around the dinner table, during our rides to work, around the water cooler. At the diner after watching a new movie.