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.

The Town of Babylon
Alejandro Varela
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
Bitterroot: An American Epic
Kent Gramm
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
Transracial Adoptions: An adoptive mother's documentary of racism, injustice
Joann Lang
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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Cursed Bunny: Stories
Bora Chung
"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
Probably Ruby
Lisa Bird-Wilson
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
Training School for Negro Girls
Camille Acker
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
Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America Through Transnational Adoption
Soojin Chung
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
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
Paul Fischer
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
Sleepwalk
Dan Chaon
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
Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
Erika Hayasaki
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