Adoptee


All You Can Ever Know
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology – An Emotion-Filled Collection for Teens Exploring Growing Up Adopted
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
First Love Language
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child
Famous Adopted People
Hour of the Ox (Pitt Poetry Series)
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past
Where the Light Shines In
The Heirs
How to Be Remy Cameron
The Correspondent
Adopting Grace
Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey by Kelly DiBenedettoWhen We Become Ours by Shannon GibneyVoices Unheard by Lisa Coppola LMHCDelly Duck by Holly MarlowThe Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier
Essential Adoption Reading
49 books — 33 voters

The Primal Wound by Nancy VerrierAll You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronThe Racism of People Who Love You by Samira MehtaAdoption Fantasies by Kimberly D. McKee
Adoptee Books
16 books — 1 voter


DaShanne Stokes
“ If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights? ”
― DaShanne Stokes

“ I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie. ...more ”
― Craig Harris, Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights

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