"An emotion-filled collection." —Kirkus Reviews 
Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . 
A girl learns about her heritage and begins to find her community . . . 
A sister is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost . . . 
There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres. 
These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences. 
This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives. 
With stories by: Kelley Baker Nicole Chung Shannon Gibney Mark Oshiro MeMe Collier Susan Harness Meredith Ireland Mariama J. Lockington Lisa Nopachai Stefany Valentine Matthew Salesses Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom Eric Smith Jenny Heijun Wills Sun Yung Shin Foreword by Rebecca Carroll Afterword by JaeRan Kim, MSW, PhD

When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

Literature & Fiction

SMITH, Eric

Gibney, Shannon

Sjöblom, Lisa Wool-Rim

Salesses, Matthew

Shin, Sun Yung

Oshiro, Mark

Lockington, Mariama J.

Ireland, Meredith

Baker, Kelley

Chung, Nicole

Wills, Jenny Heijun

Valentine, Stefany

Collier, MeMe

Harness, Susan

Nopachai, Lisa

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperTeen

Adoption and Multiculturalism features the voices of international scholars reflecting transnational and transracial adoption and its relationship to notions of multiculturalism. The essays trouble common understandings about who is being adopted, who is adopting, and where these acts are taking place, challenging in fascinating ways the tidy master narrative of saviorhood and the concept of a monolithic Western receiving nation. Too often the presumption is that the adoptive and receiving country is one that celebrates racial and ethnic diversity, thus making it superior to the conservative and insular places from which adoptees arrive. The volume's contributors subvert the often simplistic ways that multiculturalism is linked to transnational and transracial adoption and reveal how troubling multiculturalism in fact can be. The contributors represent a wide range of disciplines, cultures, and connections in relation to the adoption constellation, bringing perspectives from Europe (including Scandinavia), Canada, the United States, and Australia. The book brings together the various methodologies of literary criticism, history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural theory to demonstrate the multifarious and robust ways that adoption and multiculturalism might be studied and considered. Edited by three transnational and transracial adoptees, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific offers bold new scholarship that revises popular notions of transracial and transnational adoption as practice and phenomenon.

Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific

Politics & Social Sciences

Hübinette, Tobias

Willing, Indigo

Sociology

University of Michigan Press

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