Where the Trees Dance is many things: a love story, an ode to adoption, a reflection on growing up Irish-Catholic in Des Moines, a father’s gift to his sons, and a kinder ending to a birth-mother’s story; all disguised as a memoir. From his earliest memories to middle-age, the author relates that which is most intimate, most personal, sad, humorous, glorious, and ignoble in his life as he journeyed from being an adoptee, adrift, wondering where he fit in in the world, to finally finding home.