"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges …
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1. All You Can Ever Know
By: Nicole Chung
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
All You Can Ever Know (Catapult, Fall 2018) spans Nicole Chung's transracial adoption, her upbringi… read more
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- biography
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2. The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
By: Lori Holden , None
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Prior to 1990, fewer than 5% of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2011, 90% or more of adopti… read more
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3. The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
By: None
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Jessie Hawkins' adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn't,… read more
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4. The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
By: Nancy Verrier
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Primal Wound is a seminal work which revolutionizes the way we think about adoption. It describ… read more
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- fostering
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- parenting
- adoption
5. Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
By: Rebecca Carroll
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful st… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
6. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
7. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- race
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
8. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
By: Gabrielle Glaser
4.34
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, th… read more
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- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
9. The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption
By: Shannon Gibney
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be explores the often sur… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
10. Stranger Care
By: Sarah Sentilles
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Sentilles and her husband, Eric, decide … read more
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- memoir
- fostering
- adoption
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Do you have kids?" strangers asked almost every day. "No," I said, not wanting to explain, because, really, it's an unimaginative question, full of their beliefs about what family means, about who co…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
"People who learned Eric and I wanted to adopt a child often told us stories of adoptions gone wrong. The adopted child incapable of attachment. Who became a drug addict, a runaway, who drained bank a…"-Sarah Sentilles, Stranger Care
11. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
By: Gretchen Sisson
4.38
Format: 311 pages, Hardcover
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more
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- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
By: Jennifer Mullan
4.48
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
13. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
By: Julia Lee
4.34
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
14. "You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
By: Angela Tucker
4.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges … read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- fostering
- adoption
- nonfiction
- social justice
- family
- audiobook
15. Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies
By: Sara Easterly
4.45
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
Reveals the candid thoughts and feelings of those most directly involved in adoptees, adoptive par… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- adoption
16. What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
By: Melissa Guida-Richards
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning wh… read more
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- race
- parenting
- adoption
- nonfiction
- family
"Currently not enough is being done to make sure adoptive parents receive continued education and counseling in transracial adoption to help support them as their child ages. There is some focus on in…"-Melissa Guida-Richards, What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices
17. I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir
By: Susan Kiyo Ito
4.61
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
“Susan Kiyo Ito is like a surgeon operating on herself. She is delicate, precise, and at times cutt… read more
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- memoir
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18. Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
By: Erika Hayasaki
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, eac… read more
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- memoir
- adoption
- nonfiction
- family
- audiobook
19. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
By: Shannon Gibney
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns about her heritage and begins to f… read more
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- adoption
20. Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
By: Cait West
4.14
Format: 252 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece … read more
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- biography
- memoir
21. Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition
By: Alan J. Dettlaff
4.18
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System , Alan J. Dettlaff presents a… read more
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