In This Is How It Ends, I tell you what happens when a birth mother shows up nearly five years later to reclaim a child whom she relinquished at birth, but later refused to put up for formal adoption. The would-be adoptive family falls into disarray - alcoholism, domestic violence, and child sexual abuse. And the abyss is even deeper when the adoptive parents happen to be the brother and sister-in-law of the biological mother. When that's the case, the entire family spirals downward as relatives take sides. Those incidents root my story of family turmoil against the backdrop of social chaos....