Jacob Wheeler

Jacob Wheeler's new nonfiction book is Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption. Wheeler is an experienced journalist who turns his attention to the adoption industry in Guatemala, which at one point was so large that a full 1% of Guatemalan babies born in a given year were being adopted into U.S. families. In Between Light and Shadow, Wheeler locates an adopted Guatemalan girl's birth family and recounts her and her adoptive mother's dramatic journey to meet them.