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PAPER TRAILS: Book details Italian family’s odyssey for surrogate daughter in Arkansas

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03.10.2026

I wanted to tell you about a book by Italian author Chiara Tagliaferri called "Arkansas: Storia di mia figlia." I've only read a few pages of it, though I'd love to read more.

In English, that subtitle translates to "Story of My Daughter" and the book is a memoir about how Tagliaferri and her husband, Nicola, after a seven-year-long ordeal that began in her early 40s, came to Arkansas in 2024 to have a child via surrogacy, which is illegal in Italy.

It is a narrative, according to a press release, "recounted with disarming frankness, stripped of all idealization ... full of unknowns and plot twists, involving the search for an agency, the........

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