Description “Lisa Ko’s powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social [...]
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures “Your parents are so amazing for adopting [...]
If you’re the White parent of a transracially or internationally adopted child, you may have been told that if you try your best and work your hardest, good intentions and […]
Description “What does it mean to lose your roots – within your culture and family – and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed […]
Tragic, true, heartbreaking, astonishing… those words have been used to describe the anthology Two Worlds, the first book to expose in first-person detail the adoption practices that have [...]
Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child†for a skin condition that […]
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their […]
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children, mostly girls, have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. [...]
The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees’ visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical [...]
Are you prepared to adopt and parent transracially? Transracial adoption can be a daunting and exhilarating journey. At times you feel incredibly isolated and lost. However, with this [...]
