Author: Beverly Burch

Asuncion Fever: Anxiety, Euphoria, Secrecy, Travesty, and Lost Culture A twenty-four-hour flight—Miami, Sao Paulo, Asuncion—a decrepit taxi, a tired lawyer, an office far south, these are the beginning of what I remember. It was the unstoppable hunger some women feel, desire for a baby, that took us to Paraguay to begin a weeks-long adoption process.  Asuncion…