You Don't Know How Lucky You Are

Nearly 50 years after he was relinquished for adoption, Rudy Owens finally met his biological half-sister in San Diego. The meeting inspired him to tell his adoption story set against the larger adoption narrative that has impacted millions of adoptees, their birth parents, and their collective biological and adoptive families. Owens’s story examines the American institution of adoption, a national social-engineering experiment that remains mired in discriminatory laws and partisan politics, not