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Alice Stephens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Author of FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE @UnnamedPress. Columnist & book reviewer @WIRoBooks. Co-founder @AdopteeLitFest. @starlingscoll. @bloom_site. KAD. Hapa.

22 books
Book Cover for: The Town of Babylon, Alejandro Varela

The Town of Babylon

Alejandro Varela
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

I was delighted to interview Alejandro Varela about his debut novel THE TOWN OF BABYLON, the impossibility of going home, and the intersection between public health and storytelling. https://t.co/Sj35G5T8zM

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bitterroot: An American Epic, Kent Gramm

Bitterroot: An American Epic

Kent Gramm
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

An excellent opportunity to discuss BITTERROOT: A SALISH MEMOIR OF TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION with author Susan Devan Harness this Saturday with the Starlings Collective Adoptee Book Club. Register at https://t.co/W3iDTkpIv2. #TransracialAdoption #AdopteeBookClub #AdopteeVoices https://t.co/rmb3BWc3oZ

Paperback, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Transracial Adoptions: An adoptive mother's documentary of racism, injustice, Joann Lang

Transracial Adoptions: An adoptive mother's documentary of racism, injustice

Joann Lang
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

My @wirobooks review of @ErikaHayasaki's clear-eyed, even-handed SOMEWHERE SISTERS about #TransracialAdoption is up. The tag should read: White woman thinks she's saving the world, only breaks it more. #NAAM #AdopteeVoices #AdoptionIsAHumanRightsIssue https://t.co/iLba8z002X

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Book Cover for: Cursed Bunny: Stories, Bora Chung

Cursed Bunny: Stories

Bora Chung
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

"Bora Chung’s U.S. debut, the short-story collection Cursed Bunny, presents vivid, bizarre, and often gruesome fractured fairytales that reflect a broken society...a glimpse into the dark heart of a nation that has much to atone for." Read my review at https://t.co/9IUTrD446E

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Probably Ruby, Lisa Bird-Wilson

Probably Ruby

Lisa Bird-Wilson
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

Excellent review by @julayneelle of Lisa Bird-Wilson's gorgeous novel PROBABLY RUBY. So happy to see a transracial #adoptee review a book about transracial #adoption in The Post. Listen to the experts! https://t.co/QXXQv4TXyv

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Training School for Negro Girls, Camille Acker

Training School for Negro Girls

Camille Acker
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

Wow, haven't made this list in a long time! And it's for a 2018 review of Camille Ackers' TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS. An oldie but a goodie (but then all my reviews are goodies). https://t.co/FvbD6zKzNY

Paperback, 2018

$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America Through Transnational Adoption, Soojin Chung

Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America Through Transnational Adoption

Soojin Chung
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

This is why we need #adoptee #BookReviews! @saraeasterly & I take on Soojin Chung's ADOPTING FOR GOD (@NYUpress) hagiography of white evangelicals who established the Korean global adoption system for its shoddy scholarship & absence of adoptee testimony. https://t.co/sclsTNVQWt

Paperback, 2021

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies, Paul Fischer

The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

Paul Fischer
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

Great @WIRoBooks #BookReview by @brandvistas of @tencents77's latest, THE MAN WHO INVENTED MOTION PICTURES. (I so loved A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION, a must-read for anyone interested in N Korea.) https://t.co/8jn8I7fEHB

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Sleepwalk, Dan Chaon

Sleepwalk

Dan Chaon
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

Thanks to @thesusanito for telling me that Dan Chaon is an #adoptee. So naturally, I had to review his latest, SLEEPWALK. #BookReview #AdopteesWriting https://t.co/UUV8pjNAIJ

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family, Erika Hayasaki

Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

Erika Hayasaki
Alice StephensAlice Stephens

My @wirobooks review of @ErikaHayasaki's clear-eyed, even-handed SOMEWHERE SISTERS about #TransracialAdoption is up. The tag should read: White woman thinks she's saving the world, only breaks it more. #NAAM #AdopteeVoices #AdoptionIsAHumanRightsIssue https://t.co/iLba8z002X

Paperback, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book