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Books Related to Adoption

More Coming!

Adoptee-Authored Books​

  • Inconvenient Daughter by Lauren J. Sharkey

  • Lightning by my Fingertips by Karen Wangare Leonard  

  • All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

  • Everyone Was Falling by Jessica Sun Lee

  • You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron

  • What White Parents Should Know About Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee’s Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices by Melissa Guida-Richards (Pre-Order Now)

  • The Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka

Adoption-Related Books

  • The Primal Wound

  • The Body Keeps the Score

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