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"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 Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Summary
Summary
"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
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Author
Author Bio: Stefany Valentine Ramirez
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Author Bio: Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses is the author of several books, including the 2021 PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear. Adopted from Korea, he has written about adoption, race, and Asian American masculinity in Best American Essays 2020, NPR's Code Switch, the New York Times Motherlode blog, and the London Guardian, among others. In 2015, Buzzfeed named him one of 32 Essential Asian American Writers. He has taught fiction and Asian American literature and studies at universities and various community writing centers.
Author Bio: Mark Oshiro
Mark Oshiro is the Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe (Mark Reads and Mark Watches), where he analyzes book and TV series. He was the nonfiction editor of Queers Destroy Science Fiction! and the co-editor of Speculative Fiction 2015, and is the President of the Con or Bust Board of Directors. When not writing/recording reviews or editing, Oshiro engages in social activism online and offline. Anger is a Gift is his debut YA contemporary fiction novel.
Author Bio: Shannon Gibney
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Author Bio: Nicole Chung
Nicole Chung has written for the New York Times, GQ, Longreads, BuzzFeed, Hazlitt, and Shondaland, among other publications. She is Catapult magazine’s editor in chief and the former managing editor of The Toast. All You Can Ever Know is her first book. Follow her on Twitter at @nicole_soojung.
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Author Bio: Mariama J. Lockington
Mariama J. Lockington is an adoptee, educator, and author who has been telling stories and making her own books since the second grade. She is the author of several books and has won the Schneider Family Book Award and a Stonewall Honor. She holds a masters in education degree from Lesley University and a masters in fine arts in poetry from San Francisco State University.
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Author Bio: Jenny Heijun Wills
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Author Bio: Meredith Ireland
Meredith Ireland was born in Korea and adopted by a New York librarian. Her love of books started early, and although she pursued both pre-med at Rollins College and law at the University of Miami, stories were her fate. The Jasmine Project is her debut novel.
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Author Bio: Eric Smith
Eric Smith is an author, prolific book blogger, and literary agent from New Jersey, currently living in Philadelphia. He cohosts Book Riot’s podcast, HEY YA, with non-fiction young-adult author Kelly Jensen. He can regularly be found writing for Book Riot’s blog, as well as Barnes & Noble’s Teen Reads blog, Paste magazine, and Publishing Crawl. He has a growing Twitter platform of over 40,000 followers.
Author Bio: Susan Harness
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Author Bio: Kelley Baker
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Author Bio: MeMe Collier
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Author Bio: Susan Devan Harness
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Author Bio: Lisa Nopachai
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Author Bio: Sun Yung Shin
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Author Bio: Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
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Author Bio: Stefany Valentine
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Details
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 8.78 |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
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