Wishes of Love: A memoir of love, hope, and family

"Wishes of Love" tells the story of a young boy from Europe and his journey into America, wishing for nothing but love from newfound strangers in a strange new land. Liam Sawyer details his adoption story and helps reinforce the theme that DNA does not make a family, but rather love. He starts his story from as early as he could remember, in a vast mountainous range all the way to the elaborate environment that is New York City. He tells of the mysterious and strange foreigners that came into his orphanage and whisked him and his older sister, who played a significant mother figure in his early childhood, away to start a brand-new life. His journey tells of that of the unexpected and how nothing but change and new things were brought into his life from there on out. - Isabelle Gutierrez, April 5, 2020