Adoptee Reading
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Adoptee Reading is a catalog of books written by adoptees along with other adoption-related books recommended by adoptees. Browse more than 450 titles at https://adopteereading.com/ and check out our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
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Please join WHERE WE COME FROM co-authors @shannongibney.bsky.social, Diane Wilson, John Coy, and me for a free virtual reading and conversation on 4/29 at 10 am CDT sponsored by #OneBookOneMinnesota! <3 Published by @lernerbooks.bsky.social thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...
One Book One Minnesota - The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library
One Book | One Minnesota is a statewide book club that invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect,
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April 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Please join WHERE WE COME FROM co-authors @shannongibney.bsky.social, Diane Wilson, John Coy, and me for a free virtual reading and conversation on 4/29 at 10 am CDT sponsored by #OneBookOneMinnesota! <3 Published by @lernerbooks.bsky.social thefriends.org/minnesota-ce...
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Thanks for recommending my book, @adopteereading.bsky.social! ONE OF US has a lot to say about adoption, particularly as it was practiced in 1915, when the book is set. There's a section about the Orphan Trains~~
April 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Thanks for recommending my book, @adopteereading.bsky.social! ONE OF US has a lot to say about adoption, particularly as it was practiced in 1915, when the book is set. There's a section about the Orphan Trains~~
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"the act of finishing the book and just putting it out in the world: it was like jumping off a cliff...I have never done such a high risk thing in my life..."
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Check out our latest episode with @thesusanito.bsky.social
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Susan Kiyo Ito: Adoption, Birth Mothers, & Reproductive Justice
Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker speak with Susan Kiyo Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere, about adoption, the complexities of meeting one's birth mother, and reproductive freedom.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"the act of finishing the book and just putting it out in the world: it was like jumping off a cliff...I have never done such a high risk thing in my life..."
Check out our latest episode with @thesusanito.bsky.social
@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social
@ajfields.bsky.social
@evalangston.bsky.social
Check out our latest episode with @thesusanito.bsky.social
@hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social
@ajfields.bsky.social
@evalangston.bsky.social
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HEY!! -->FOR INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY!!
Preorder my new book ONE OF US from Mac's Backs in Cleveland, and you'll get a signed copy when it comes out on Sept. 23. You'll also be eligible to win one of the cool prizes seen below...
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Preorder my new book ONE OF US from Mac's Backs in Cleveland, and you'll get a signed copy when it comes out on Sept. 23. You'll also be eligible to win one of the cool prizes seen below...
macsbacks.com/book/9781250...
April 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
HEY!! -->FOR INDIE BOOKSTORE DAY!!
Preorder my new book ONE OF US from Mac's Backs in Cleveland, and you'll get a signed copy when it comes out on Sept. 23. You'll also be eligible to win one of the cool prizes seen below...
macsbacks.com/book/9781250...
Preorder my new book ONE OF US from Mac's Backs in Cleveland, and you'll get a signed copy when it comes out on Sept. 23. You'll also be eligible to win one of the cool prizes seen below...
macsbacks.com/book/9781250...
This YA novel follows an exiled queer #transracial adoptee as he searches for his sister while struggling to recover from religious abuse. By award-winning #adoptee author Mark Oshiro. #AdopteeVoices #YoungAdult #fiction #LGBTQIA
Into the Light - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
When you’re like me, you have to lie.It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family and driven into the wilderness of the American Southwest. Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules…
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March 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This YA novel follows an exiled queer #transracial adoptee as he searches for his sister while struggling to recover from religious abuse. By award-winning #adoptee author Mark Oshiro. #AdopteeVoices #YoungAdult #fiction #LGBTQIA
Lynne Leppard's loyalty to her adoptive family was real, but so too was her longing to find out more about her first family. In pages woven with faith, she searches for answers re: identity, security, and belonging. #NewZealand #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir
Road to Belonging: Establishing a Legacy of Love After Closed Adoption - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
Each person has their own unique story, and as Lynne Leppard’s early life included foster care and adoption, she often found herself wondering about her origins and heritage. Her loyalty to her…
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March 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lynne Leppard's loyalty to her adoptive family was real, but so too was her longing to find out more about her first family. In pages woven with faith, she searches for answers re: identity, security, and belonging. #NewZealand #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir
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Thank you to everyone who came out to the “Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptees Break Out” panel at #AWP2025 this morning! ✊🏽😭😭
It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
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It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
@thesusanito.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Thank you to everyone who came out to the “Fighting Tropes, Changing Narratives: BIPOC Adoptees Break Out” panel at #AWP2025 this morning! ✊🏽😭😭
It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
@thesusanito.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social
It met so much for us to share our work and be in conversation with us…Let’s keep it up!
@thesusanito.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social
The story of a #BabyScoopEra adoptee's search for history, roots, and family, including the shocking disclosure of a secret kept by her adoptive parents and her ultimate acceptance of two distinct sets of relatives. #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir
Finding Loretta: An Adopted Daughter's Search to Define Family - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
Adopted as an infant by a naval officer and his wife during the Baby Scoop Era, Diane Wheaton has always heard conflicting versions of the truth of her origins—but it’s not until she is forty-seven…
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March 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The story of a #BabyScoopEra adoptee's search for history, roots, and family, including the shocking disclosure of a secret kept by her adoptive parents and her ultimate acceptance of two distinct sets of relatives. #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir
A DNA test taken to learn about health risks led him to discover, at the age of 66, that the parents he grew up with were not his biological parents. He had been adopted. #LateDiscoveryAdoptee #adoptees #GeneticGenealogy
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Adopted in secrecy: With help from TMCC’s Open Genealogy Lab, Randall Lorenz learned his true birth story—and finally met his biological family
Air Force veteran Randall Lorentz happened to meet research librarian Suzanne Malek. “He wanted to know why his DNA results didn’t match his reality,” Malek said. “We soon discovered his pare…
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March 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A DNA test taken to learn about health risks led him to discover, at the age of 66, that the parents he grew up with were not his biological parents. He had been adopted. #LateDiscoveryAdoptee #adoptees #GeneticGenealogy
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The Free, All-Virtual Adoptee Literary Festival Returns Next Saturday, March 22nd! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @adopteelitfest.bsky.social #booksky
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Free, All-Virtual Adoptee Literary Festival Returns Next Saturday, March 22nd! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/the... @adopteelitfest.bsky.social #booksky
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Wonderful gathering of 🥚adoptee authors at Tucson Festival of Books!!
March 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Wonderful gathering of 🥚adoptee authors at Tucson Festival of Books!!
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My debut poetry chapbook PASTORALE is now available for preorder from Burnside Review! @burnsidereview.bsky.social
Poems of yearning, Ovid, Nebraska, Puccini, and sapphic mushrooms. (& adoption🥚)
Preorder here: burnsidereview.org/chapbooks-Pa...
Cover design by Rory Sparks
Poems of yearning, Ovid, Nebraska, Puccini, and sapphic mushrooms. (& adoption🥚)
Preorder here: burnsidereview.org/chapbooks-Pa...
Cover design by Rory Sparks
March 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My debut poetry chapbook PASTORALE is now available for preorder from Burnside Review! @burnsidereview.bsky.social
Poems of yearning, Ovid, Nebraska, Puccini, and sapphic mushrooms. (& adoption🥚)
Preorder here: burnsidereview.org/chapbooks-Pa...
Cover design by Rory Sparks
Poems of yearning, Ovid, Nebraska, Puccini, and sapphic mushrooms. (& adoption🥚)
Preorder here: burnsidereview.org/chapbooks-Pa...
Cover design by Rory Sparks
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Our workshops filled up in two days! Registration for the keynote, panels and readings will be open until March 21st. Virtual and free to attend!
March 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Our workshops filled up in two days! Registration for the keynote, panels and readings will be open until March 21st. Virtual and free to attend!
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"A probing look at what America gets wrong about transracial adoption." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @ucpress.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social @kit-myers.bsky.social #booksky #adoption #trna
March 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"A probing look at what America gets wrong about transracial adoption." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @ucpress.bsky.social @alicestephens.bsky.social @kit-myers.bsky.social #booksky #adoption #trna
Grappling with subjects of abuse, violence, mental health & deeply held grief, this #poetry collection asks, what does it truly mean to be loved in a world where you’re seen as second best? By a former foster child.
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Almost Loved: Poems - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
“What if you spend the rest of your life chasing love, only to find her cowering in the pit of your stomach? What then?” Almost Loved follows a former foster child’s search for love and connection,…
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March 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Grappling with subjects of abuse, violence, mental health & deeply held grief, this #poetry collection asks, what does it truly mean to be loved in a world where you’re seen as second best? By a former foster child.
buff.ly/4knXj8L #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #FosterCare #Canada
buff.ly/4knXj8L #AdopteeVoices #adoptees #FosterCare #Canada
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I chose to create the books that didn't exist, the books that I needed as a child, the books that empower adoptees to believe in themselves - on #ReadAcrossAmerica Day, share the #AdopteesLikeMe series with the young adoptees in your life! AdopteesLikeMe.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I chose to create the books that didn't exist, the books that I needed as a child, the books that empower adoptees to believe in themselves - on #ReadAcrossAmerica Day, share the #AdopteesLikeMe series with the young adoptees in your life! AdopteesLikeMe.com
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Thank you to Bodega Magazine for publishing "Cavities and Fillings," another piece in my collection of autofictional short stories. I've had trouble w/ my teeth my whole life, this story explores why while also delving into the double consciousness of the #adoptee.
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
Bodega | Cavities and Fillings
Fiction | Alice Stephens: Cavities and Fillings | Bodega Magazine
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March 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thank you to Bodega Magazine for publishing "Cavities and Fillings," another piece in my collection of autofictional short stories. I've had trouble w/ my teeth my whole life, this story explores why while also delving into the double consciousness of the #adoptee.
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
www.bodegamag.com/articles/809...
Journalist Kristen Martin explores the real history of orphanhood in the US: religious indoctrination at the core of the first orphanages, orphan trains that took parentless children out West, the classism & racism underlying child welfare. buff.ly/4bkPnRw #orphans #adoptees #journalism #history
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
The orphan story has been mythologized: Step one: While a child is still too young to form distinct memories of them, their parents die in an untimely fashion. Step two: Orphan acquires caretakers…
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March 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Journalist Kristen Martin explores the real history of orphanhood in the US: religious indoctrination at the core of the first orphanages, orphan trains that took parentless children out West, the classism & racism underlying child welfare. buff.ly/4bkPnRw #orphans #adoptees #journalism #history
Adopted twins Julie & Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. But as Julie’s parents continue adding children, some painful & tragic experiences test family values & relationships, causing Julie to question everything.
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Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood - Adoptee Reading: An Adoption Book Catalog
In this coming-of-age memoir, set in Chicago’s western suburbs between the 1960s and ’80s, adopted twins Julie and Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. Their sisterly bond holds tight…
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February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Adopted twins Julie & Jenny provide their parents with an instant family. But as Julie’s parents continue adding children, some painful & tragic experiences test family values & relationships, causing Julie to question everything.
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<a href="/hashtag/AdopteeVoices" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#AdopteeVoices #adoptees #memoir #AdoptiveFamilies
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This one should be good! @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This one should be good! @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social
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For my late night pals, here is the cover reveal for my new book~~~~~
🎪✨ Step right up for a playfully macabre and thrilling adventure! Join in for a ride in #OneOfUs by Dan Chaon, where orphaned twins escape their villainous uncle and find refuge in a bizarre traveling carnival. This tale of suspense and wonder arrives on 9/23/25: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
February 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
For my late night pals, here is the cover reveal for my new book~~~~~
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Thank you to the Korean Quarterly for this write-up on the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Showcasing stories of adoptee lives - Korean Quarterly
Day-long virtual Adoptee Literary Festival set for March 22, 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Thank you to the Korean Quarterly for this write-up on the Adoptee Literary Festival 2025.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
Workshops are full, but registration is still open for the keynote address, panels, and readings. See our website (link in comments) to register.
"Adoption Rights Alliance estimates that 100,000 unmarried [Irish] women had their children adopted domestically from 1922 to 1998. They also note that at least 1,933 were legally adopted to America, with suggestions of another 10,000 illegally adopted."
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #adoptees #Ireland
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #adoptees #Ireland
The story of Ireland's adoption history in two institutions
A new project will look at the history of Dublin's Temple Hill and Bird's Nest children's homes through interviews with adoptees and employees
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February 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"Adoption Rights Alliance estimates that 100,000 unmarried [Irish] women had their children adopted domestically from 1922 to 1998. They also note that at least 1,933 were legally adopted to America, with suggestions of another 10,000 illegally adopted."
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #adoptees #Ireland
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... #adoptees #Ireland
"In Bulgaria, where I am born and live until the age of five, I lose my life.
You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remember."
You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remember."
Biggest thank you to Kailey Brennan DelloRusso and Ashleah Gonzalez for selecting my essay to be featured in this month’s issue of Write or Die Magazine.
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Loss, Side Effects May Include — Write or Die Magazine
In Bulgaria, where I am born and live until the age of five, I lose my life. You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remem...
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February 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"In Bulgaria, where I am born and live until the age of five, I lose my life.
You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remember."
You never hear it referred to in such a melodramatic way, but that is what it feels like to be adopted at an age you remember."