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• All You Can Ever Know

  a Memoir

  Chung, Nicole,

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  Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. She was told her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Family Family

  Frankel, Laurie,

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  India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actress. Armed with a stack of index cards and a hell of a lot of talent, she goes from awkward 16-year-old to Broadway ingenue to tv star. But while promoting her most recent project, a film about adoption,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Would Meet You Anywhere

  a Memoir

  Ito, Susan, 1959-

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  A memoir about one woman's search for her birth parents, exploring complicated relationships with family, the legacy of WWII internment on generations of Japanese Americans, and the challenges adoptees often face in learning their own histories

• A Living Remedy

  Chung, Nicole,

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  From the bestselling author of ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW comes a searing memoir of class, inequality, and grief-a daughter's search to understand the lives her adoptive parents led, the life she forged as an adult, and the lives she's lost. In this…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Matched

  a Memoir

  Massar, Denise,

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  When their adoption attorney told Denise and her husband that they would be responsible for finding a woman willing to give them her baby, Denise was horrified. But horror quickly turned into an obsession. She advertised across the country, fielding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Motherhood So White

  a Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America

  Austin, Nefertiti,

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  In America, Mother = White. That's what Nefertiti, a single African American woman, discovered when she decided she wanted to adopt a Black baby boy out of the foster care system. Eager to finally join the motherhood ranks, Nefertiti was shocked…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Myth of Surrender

  McNees, Kelly O'Connor,

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  What if the most important decision of your life was not yours to make? This vivid and powerful novel follows two women whose paths intersect at a maternity home in the "Baby Scoop Era." In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nature of Small Birds

  Finkbeiner, Susie,

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  When Mindy announces that she is returning to Vietnam to find her birthmother, it inspires her father, mother, and sister to recall the events of her adoption at the end of the Vietnam War during Operation Baby Lift. In this beautiful time-slip…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Other People's Children

  Hoffmann, R. J., 1969-

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  Gail and Jon Durbin moved to the Chicago suburbs to set up house as soon as Gail got pregnant. But then she miscarried - once, twice, three times. Determined to expand their family, the Durbins turn to adoption. When several adoptions fall through,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Relinquished

  the Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

  Sisson, Gretchen,

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  A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surviving the White Gaze

  a Memoir

  Carroll, Rebecca,

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  A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America

• When We Become Ours

  a YA Adoptee Anthology

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  There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres. These…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• "You Should Be Grateful"

  Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

  Tucker, Angela (Podcaster),

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  Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way…Read moreRead more of this annotation