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Below is a list of books you may wish to read
to learn more about various issues related to international adoption. If you know of a good book I have left off this list, please let
me know so that I can add it.
General International Adoption –
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child
 - Nancy Verrier
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade - Ann Fessler
Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections - Jean MacLeod
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew - Sherrie Eldridge
Talking with Young Children about Adoption - Mary Watkins and Susan Fisher
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self - David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, and Robin Marantz Henig
The Kinning of Foreigners: Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective - Signe Howell
Culture Keeping: White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference - Heather Jacobson
Cultures of Transnational Adoption - Toby Alice Volkman
Post Adoption Depression Syndrome –
The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforeseen Challenges of Adoption - Karen J. Foli and John R. Thompson
Transracial Adoption –
YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American- Vickie Nam
Unraveling the "Model Minority" Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth- Stacey J. Lee
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White - Frank H. Wu
Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites?: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today - Mia Tuan
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Inside Transracial Adoption - Gail Steinberg
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption- Barbara Katz Rothman
Cultures of Transnational Adoption - Toby Alice
The Language of Blood - Jane Jeong Trenka
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories - Rita James Simon
Somebody's Daughter: A Novel - Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Birth Is More Than Once: The Inner World of Adopted Korean Children - Heis Wilkinson
After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees - Sook Wilkinson
Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship (Nation of Newcomers) - Sara K. Dorow
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption - Jane Jeong Trenka
Beyond Good Intentions: A Mother Reflects On Raising Internationally Adopted Children - Cheri Register
Cross Cultural Adoption: How To Answer Questions from Family, Friends & Community - Amy Coughlin
Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries - Cheri Register
Special Needs Adoption –
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow - Gregory Keck
When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD - Nancy L. Thomas
Attachment –
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents - Deborah D. Gray
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft - Mary Hopkins-Best
Country Specific–
China
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China - Kay Ann Johnson
The Lost Daughters of China - Karin Evans
The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another - Cindy Champnella
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution - Johnathan D. Spence
Red Star Over China - Edgar Snow
Mao: A Life - Philip Short
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter - Adeline Yen Mah
The Good Women of China: Hidden Voice - Xinran Xue
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Jung Chang
Chinese America: The Untold Story of America's Oldest New Community - Peter Kwong
Chinese Americans and Their Immigrant Parents: Conflict, Identity, and Values - May Pao-May Tung
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans - Ronald Takak
Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices - Arar Han
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II - Iris Chang
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