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10 best books like Lucky Girl: A Memoir (Mei-Ling Hopgood): Sweet Mandarin, A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots, Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China, Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays, The Lost Daughters of China, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet, My Fathers' Daughter, In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories, Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found

Sweet Mandarin
AuthorHelen Tse
ISBN0091913624
Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative true story recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to the West. Their...
A Single Square Picture: A Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots
AuthorKaty Robinson
One day she was Kim Ji-yun, growing up in Seoul, Korea. The next day she was Catherine Jeanne Robinson, living with her new American family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Twenty years later, Katy Robinson returned to Seoul in search of her birth mother -- and found herself an American outsider in her native land....
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
AuthorMichael Levy
ISBN0805091963
An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux

In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of...
Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
AuthorAminta Arrington
ISBN1590208994
When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy,...
Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays
AuthorBill Holm
ISBN1571312501
Arranged by letter of the alphabet, with at least one entry per letter, these short pieces capture the variety of daily life in contemporary China. Writing about traditions that endure in rural areas as well as the bureaucratic absurdities an American teacher and traveler experiences in the 1980s,...
The Lost Daughters of China
AuthorKarin Evans
ISBN1585421170
The author, Karin Evans, blends the story of adopting her daughter with an exploration of the conditions in China (e.g., poverty, the so-called "one child" policy) that have led to orphanages being filled with baby girls. I found parts of the book fascinating and eye-opening, but overall, I was left...
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
AuthorMelissa Fay Greene
ISBN0374223068
A loving portrait of a unique twenty first-century family with nine children as it wobbles between disaster and joy: "We so loved raising our four children by birth, we didn't want to stop. When the clock started to run down on the home team, we brought in ringers."

When the two-time National...
My Fathers' Daughter
AuthorHannah Pool
ISBN0141016043
In 1974 Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea and brought to England by her white adoptive father. She grew up unable to imagine what it must be like to look into the eyes of a blood relative until one day a letter arrived from a brother she never knew she had. Not knowing what to do with the letter,...
In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
AuthorRita James Simon
ISBN0231118295
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 transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young...
Ithaka: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found
AuthorSarah Saffian
ISBN0385334516
The voice on the other end of the line was soft, yet forthright: "Sarah, my name is Hannah Morgan. I think I'm your birth mother."

The phone call, wholly unexpected, instantly turned Sarah Saffian's world upside-down, threatening her sense of family, identity, self. Adopted as an infant twenty-three...
Inside Transracial Adoption
AuthorGail Steinberg
ISBN0944934242
A resource guide for families considering transracial adoption. This book is the result of two families' experiences adoption multicultural children. Somewhat limited in scope and attitude. The section on Black hair care is well done. Authors: Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall. Ages: Adult. Hardcover....
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption
AuthorKathryn Joyce
ISBN1586489429
When Jessie Hawkins’ adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn’t, at first, know what to think. She’d wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she’d done something...
The Waiting Child: How the Faith and Love of One Orphan Saved the Life of Another
AuthorCindy Champnella
ISBN0312309643
The Waiting Child is an extraordinary story of human resilience in the face of tremendous odds. Adopted by an American family at age four, Jaclyn goes to her new home with a great burden. Her new family had to leave behind a little boy who had been under her charge at the Chinese orphanage. Jaclyn inspires...
Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption
AuthorScott Simon
ISBN1400068495
In this warm, funny, and wise new book, NPR’s award-winning and beloved Scott Simon tells the story of how he and his wife found true love with two tiny strangers from the other side of the world. It’s a book of unforgettable moments: when Scott and Caroline get their first thumb-size pictures of their...
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love
AuthorXinran
ISBN0701184027
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously - because...
China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
AuthorJeff Gammage
"After eighteen years together, Christine and I are down to our last hour as a couple. By dinner we will be a threesome. It seems strange to stand so firmly atop a generational fault line, to know that in an hour you'll be a parent, to understand that your old life is disappearing before your eyes, that a new...
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption
AuthorJane Jeong Trenka
ISBN0896087646
Given Madonna's recent decision to adopt a child from Malawi, news and entertainment are abuzz with what you've observed yourself—in your own family, or the family next door, or passing the neighborhood playground—there's a boom in transracial adoption. Most coverage focuses on the struggles...
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
AuthorKay Ann Johnson
ISBN0963847279
Kay Johnson has done groundbreaking research on abandonment and adoption in China. In Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son, Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the government's population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences,...
Somebody's Daughter
AuthorMarie Myung-Ok Lee
ISBN0807083895
A "heartwarming and heartbreaking"* story of a Korean American girl's search for her roots

Somebody's Daughter is the story of nineteen-year-old Sarah Thorson, who was adopted as a baby by a Lutheran couple in the Midwest. After dropping out of college, she decides to study in Korea and becomes...
Daughter of the Ganges: A Memoir
AuthorAsha Miró
ISBN0743286723
"A moving and emotional story about one girl's adoption"While growing up in an Indian orphanage, Asha Miro dreamed of someday being adopted. Her wish finally came true, but only at the misfortune of another. When Asha was six, a Catalan family was in the process of adopting twins but one of the children...
Two Little Girls: A Memoir of Adoption
AuthorTheresa Reid
ISBN0425215059
In Chicago, Theresa Reid and her husband had lucrative careers and a beautiful home. What was missing from their lives was children. But they knew in Eastern Europe, there were children who were missing parents-and they set out to find their family. This is Theresa's account of how Natalie and Lana came...
Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
AuthorPatty Cogen
ISBN1558323260
Parenting the Internationally Adopted Child: From your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years
by Patty Cogen, copyright 2008

Books on how to parent adopted children often have the same weaknesses as general parenting books. They are personal works that detail an individual, or...
Adoption Nation How The Adoption Revolution Is Transforming America
AuthorAdam Pertman
ISBN0465056512
I'd read the original version a couple of years ago, and this one is even better--bringing us up to the minute with the use of Facebook and other social media, and the sad story of the "mother" who sent her adopted child back to Russia.

The author's passion for making adoption as good as possible...
Finding Fernanda
AuthorErin Siegal
ISBN0983884501
What began as Erin Siegal's 2009 Master's project as a Fellow at the Stabile Center for Investigative Reporting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism evolved into a complex investigation of $30,000 U.S. dollars, four Guatemalan "orphans," one nonprofit evangelical Christian...
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