The Perfect Home For Your Child

“The Perfect Home for Your Child” brings equal measures of acuity and empathy to its story of a would-be adoptive couple as they wait for a prospective birth mother to decide if she will keep her child. With an exquisite breathlessness mirroring the couple’s nerve-racked hopes, Graham Slaughter offers an intimate perspective on byzantine regulations, daunting financial barriers, and the complicated bonds between strangers amid emotional tumult. Taut, heartbreaking, and hopeful, it’s a story in which the family’s future is less a branching tree than a garden of forking paths.