A hilarious personal account of the ups and downs of infertility and adoption.
[Book Review] The Adoption Club: Therapeutic Workbook Series
A versatile tool to help adoptees work through feelings and find their voice.
[Book Review] Two Dads
A children’s book celebrating the love that bonds LGBT families, told from the perspective of an adopted child.
[Book Review] The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself
AF’s editors review The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself, a story to help teach adoptive children that it’s OK to let their defenses down and trust.
[Book Review] Wish
While not overtly an adoption story, Wish, by Matthew Cordell can help a child understand how his parents hoped and dreamed for his arrival.
[Book Review] Dear Adoptive Parents, Things You Need to Know — Right Now!
An adoption expert who is herself an adult adoptee encourages parents to support their children any way they can.
[Book Review] The Hundred-Year Flood
This debut novel by a Korean adoptee explores love, loss, and finding yourself across the world.
[Book Review] Geezer Dad
Author Tom LaMarr and his wife thought they had plenty of time to have a kid — until they didn’t.
[Book Review] Bastards
In this memoir, Mary Anna King details her complex relationship with her mother, her siblings, and the grandparents who adopted her.
[Book Review] God and Jetfire
A beautiful, well-written, and heart-piercing memoir about what it means to be a birth mother.
[Book Review] Flip the Script
Lost Daughters, a collaborative writing project focused on female adoptees, has added another gem to their collection.
[Book Review] More Love, Less Panic
Author Claude Knobler shares valuable lessons he learned after adopting his son from Ethiopia.
[Book Review] Three More Words
Published nearly ten years after her debut memoir, Three More Words offers a closer look at Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s tumultuous journey through foster care.
[Book Review] Everything You Ever Wanted
Everything You Ever Wanted is a touching reflection on infertility, adoption, and the duality of feeling “wanted” and “unwanted” as an adopted child.
[Book Review] In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption
Rhonda Roorda delivers another masterpiece to her “In Their Voices” series.
[Book Review] You Belong
An elephant named Hope guides young children through adoption’s big questions in this delightful book.
[Book Review] Dear Wonderful You, Letters to Adopted & Foster Youth
Adoptees write letters to other adoptees, exploring the unique feelings that only one who was adopted could understand.
[Book Review] Paloma the Possible
Paloma the Possible is a heartwarming collaged book, encouraging the most common questions adoptees have.
[Book Review] The Life Intended
Kristin Harmel skillfully tackles love, loss, and the power of communication in this moving novel.
[Book Review] The Year She Left Us
Kathryn Ma’s ambitious debut novel about a Chinese girl adopted by a Chinese-American family tackles race, identity, and “luck.”