Single women have long been recognized as successful adoptive parents, but single men seeking to adopt face far greater challenges. In Adopting Anton, Robert Klose chronicles his harrowing yet heartwarming journey to adopt a five-year-old boy from Ukraine. Already an adoptive father, Klose naively assumed his second attempt would be easier. Instead, he encountered a bureaucracy deeply entrenched in its Soviet past, coupled with the emotional toll of navigating a system that prioritized "mother and child" over "father and child." Set against the chaotic backdrop of the post-9/11 era, this powerful memoir follows Klose’s determination to bring Anton home, despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles.