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Network of Politicized Adoptees (NPA) Recommended Book List

NPA assessed current mainstream library book access to adoption-related books and discovered a lack of critical viewpoints and adoptee voices, and an overwhelming adoptee parent perspective. To counter this, NPA compiled a recommended book list to offer a more politicized and alternative knowledge base against the mainstream narrative of adoption. Our hope is to encourage a deeper understanding of the complexities of adoption.                                                 

Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (2010) by Eleana Kim
 
Adoption Healing...a Path to Recovery (2000) by Joe Soll

Adoption Therapy: Perspectives from Clients and Clinicians on Processing and Healing Post-Adoption (2014) edited by Laura Dennis

Adoptionland (2014) by Janine Myung Ja

Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self (1993) by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter, Robin Marantz Henig 

Beyond Good Intentions (2005) by Cheri Register

Birth Mothers and Transnational Adoption Practice in South Korea (2016) by Hosu Kim
   
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel (2013) by Kathryn Joyce

Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race: Korean Adoptees in America (2011) by Mia Tuan and Jiannbin Lee Shiao
 
Here: A Visual History of Adopted Koreans in Minnesota (2010) by Kim Jackson and Heewon Lee
   
Coming Home to Self: The Adopted Child Grows Up (2003) by Nancy Newton Verrier
   
Dreaming a World: Korean Birth Mothers Tell Their Stories (2010) edited by Sangsoon Han
   
The Family of Adoption (1998) by Joyce Pavao

From Orphan to Adoptee: U.S. Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption (2014) by SooJin Pate

Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee’s Return to Korea (2009) by Jane Jeong Trenka
 
Ghost of Sangju (2015) by Soojung Jo
   
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe vs. Wade (2007) by Ann Fessler
 
The Handbook of Adoption (2006) edited by Amanda Baden
   
International Korean Adoption: A Fifty-Year History of Policy and Practice (2007) edited by Bergquist, Vonk, Kim and Feit

Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism (2016) by Kim Park Nelson

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Question for Wholeness (1995) by Betty Jean Lifton

The Language of Blood (2003) by Jane Jeong Trenka
 
Lost & Found: The Adoption Experience (1979) by Betty Jean Lifton

Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (2006) edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin
 
Paper Pavilion (2007) by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Parenting as Adoptees (2012) edited by Adam Chau and Kevin Ost-Vollmers

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child (2003) by Nancy Newton Verrier

Reframing Transracial Adoption: Korean Adoptees, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship (2012) by Kristi Brian

Rough and Savage (2012) by Sun Yung Shin

Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees (1997) by Jo Rankin

Skirt Full of Black (2006) by Sun Yung Shin

Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (2012) by Laura Briggs
   
The Translation of Han (2014) by Hei Kyong Kim
  
This Many Miles from Desire (2007) by Lee Herrick


To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (2015) by Arissa H. Oh

Transnational Adoption: A Culture of Economy of Race, Gender, and Kinship (2006) by Sara K Dorow

The "Unknown" Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then & Now (2015) by Janine Myung Ja

Unbearable Splendor (2016) by Sun Yung Shin
  
Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? (2011) by Jeanette Winterson
 

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