"In emotional, sometimes blistering essays, Galbraith portrays her loving adoptive parents, sexuality, and role as a wife and mother….Galbraith’s passionate narrative effectively shows the struggle of an adoptive child to comprehend an often long-hidden history….A potent reminder that adoption is founded on loss.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The early life of an adopted child is mysterious, perhaps most of all to the child herself. In The Guild of the Infant Saviour, Megan Galbraith explores this mystery with delicacy and humorous intelligence, using science, art, and weird little dolls to guide her. What she finds is beautiful, sad, heartening, and mysterious. In its generous scope, Galbraith’s book honors the depth and mystery of all human lives, whether we grew up with birth parents or not.” —Mary Gaitskill, author of This Is Pleasure
“The Guild of the Infant Saviour depicts adoption and motherhood with hard-won and clear-eyed pathos. Galbraith is a model observer; here life is set before readers like her photographs, arranged into beautiful and terrifying patterns that stand fixed in time but move in the mind.” —Matthew Salesses, author of Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear