With about half the summer left, I offer you a harvest of new adoption books that have recently become available. Here are some that have come into my mailbox or across my radar.
New Adoption Books 2015
Hole in My Heart by Lorraine Dusky
For: adults
Lorraine, known to many as one of the driving forces behind [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum, placed her daughter in the 1960s. This is Lorraine’s long-awaited sequel to her earlier work, Birthmark. I’ve just begun reading and I’m hooked.
Jazzy’s Quest by Carrie Goldman and Juliet C Bond
For: children — early chapter readers
Likely you’ve run across Carrie at her highly esteemed column, Portrait of An Adoption. She noticed a dearth of adoption books for early chapter readers, and decided to fill it with this, the first in a series. Read my review.
20 Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make, 2nd edition by Sherrie Eldridge
For: adoptees, late teens and up, and people who want to better understand support them
One of the very first adoption books I (and so many other new adoptive parents) read when I first became a mom was Sherrie’s 20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew. I’m excited to make this book — for the adopted person — available to my kids as they approach these choice-points. I have a signed copy to give away (see below).*
The Adoptee Survival Guide: Adoptees Share Their Wisdom and Tools, edited by Lynn Grubb
For: adult adoptees and people who want to better understand and support them
This anthology explores the “complexities of being adopted, embarking on search and reunion, fighting for equal access to identifying information, navigating complex family relationships with the latest technology, and surviving it all with a sense of humor.” I intend to read it. It’s getting great reviews.
Encouragement for the Adoption and Parenting Journeys: 52 Devotions and a Journal by Rachel Garlinghouse and Madeleine Melcher
A bible-based devotional for adults who are adopting or have adopted, by two adoptive moms (one is also an adoptee).
Dear Carolina by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Southern fiction. Letters written by both birth mom and adoptive mom to the child they both love. Reviewers seem to like it. Read my review.
* Adoption Book Giveaway
To enter the giveaway for Sherrie Eldridge’s 20 Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make (signed by author!) please leave a comment indicating you’re entering the drawing (not all commenters will be entering, so make sure I know you are, and make sure I can reach you by email). I’ll randomly pick a name next week and get the book on its way to its new owner.
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25 Responses
Great post, Lori. I’m anxious to read these books (well, the adult and teen themed ones.) Thanks for pointing out these resources.
Let me know which ones you pick up, SuzannaCatherine.
Thanks so much for including Dear Carolina, Lori! I appreciate you taking the time to read it. Hope you’re having a great summer!
Likewise, Kristy. I wish you ongoing good luck with your launch.
I’d love to be entered! Anything by Sherrie is something I want to read and knowledge I want in my arsenal.
Thanks for entering, Melissa. You’re in the drawing.
A lot of books on the market. It’s nice to see an influx of books on this topic.
Thank you for gathering this list. Could you please add the anthology, ‘The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now’. It also just came out to great reviews.
Thanks!
https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Club-Korean-Adoptees-Then/dp/1512331538/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434603203&sr=1-1
Hi, anemone kym. I’m inclined to assist people with whom I’m in some sort of relationship. How about we get to know each other?
Thanks for such a great list of resources and reading material… I will be checking some of these out, for sure. And please enter me in the drawing, thanks!
Also, I haven’t read it but saw a memoir that was just released that looked interesting, “God and Jetfire” by Amy Seek, who is a birthmother. It’s on my list, too.
I’m looking into that one now, too, Jess.
Thanks for entering the drawing!
I am entering this fantabulous giveaway…thank you so much for the opportunity!
You’re entered, Rhonda. Thanks.
I would love to enter this giveaway! I’m so glad you posted this — I was just thinking I needed a good book to read… Thanks Laurie!!!
You’ve been entered, Kelly. Thx.
Thanks for including HOLE IN MY HEART, about my topsy-turvy relationship with my daughter after our reunion when she was 15. I’m very interested in reading your reaction after you finish it.
I’d love to be entered!
You are now, Tonya. Thanks!
I would love to enter this giveaway!
You’re entered, Brooke.
Is it too late to enter?
Thanks for including the Adoptee Survival Guide. As one of the contributing authors (and friend of many of the others!) I’m glad to see it getting lots of exposure and favorable reviews. Let me know what you think of it 🙂
You’re in time!
I’ve read your essays before, Jodi, and I’m eager to do so in this anthology, as well.
If it’s not to late, I’d also love to enter. ’20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew’ was one of the first adoption books I read, too, and it’s still one of my favorites.
Like me! You’re in, Emily.
They look like fantastic resource materials. 🙂