You Don’t Look Adopted
Can writing your story save your life? I should have come with a manual. My parents thought they were getting one thing when they adopted me—a baby of their own—when … more »
Searching for Mom
Gold Medal, Illumination Book Awards | National Indie Excellence Awards Winner | Readers’ Favorite Silver Medalist | Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, Honorable Mention Searching for Mom is a “disarmingly honest” mother-daughter story.Sara … more »
A Living Remedy
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Named a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Harper’s Bazaar * Esquire * Booklist * USA Today * Elle * Good Housekeeping * New York Times * Electric Literature * Today From the bestselling … more »
All You Can Ever Know
This beloved memoir “is an extraordinary, honest, nuanced and compassionate look at adoption, race in America and families in general” (Jasmine Guillory, Code Switch, NPR) What does it means to lose … more »
Standing in the Gap:Meeting the Needs of Your Transracial Adoptee
When I was creating my vision for this workbook, I thought about what I hear from transracial adoptees as an advocate, coach, and mentor. When reviewing the discussions I’ve had, … more »
A Practical Guide: Transracial Adoption
Transracial adoption is a complex & difficult journey for parents, adopted children, and their siblings. Parents are confused about the specific steps they need to take to help their child … more »
Be The Bridge – Transracial Adoption Guide
Although no one can fully prepare for parenthood—biological or adoptive—cross-race parenting comes with unique challenges. Unfortunately, many white parents enter transracial adoption ill-equipped to deal with the racial realities their … more »
In their voices, Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over … more »
What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption
The White Fragility for transracial adoption–practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning white saviorism, and fixing the mistakes you don’t even know you’re making. If you’re the white parent of a transracially or … more »