Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Books about Intercountry Adoptions from South America

  • Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees

    Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees

    Edited by Abby Forero-Hilty

    Decoding Our Origins: The Lived Experiences of Colombian Adoptees is written by seventeen authors who were born in Colombia and adopted internationally. Their individual stories illustrate different aspects of the transracial adoption experience. The traumatic loss of their mothers, culture and identities; racism; and severe…

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  • I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging

    I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging

    by Jacob Taylor-Mosquera

    I Met Myself in October: A Memoir of Belonging is a thought-provoking true adventure discussing international/transracial adoption and what it means to belong to two countries and two families. Taylor-Mosquera weaves together the intricacies of struggling to belong to the Black and Latinx communities in…

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  • Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

    Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World

    by Christina Rickardsson; translated by Tara F. Chace

    Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside São Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger…

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  • The Adoption (two volumes)

    The Adoption (two volumes)

    by Zidrou; illustrated by Arno Monin; translated by Jeremy Melloul

    Vol. 1: Gabriel’s retired life is turned upside down when his son and daughter-in-law adopt an orphaned girl from Peru. He was barely much of a father to his own son… how is he going to take to being a grandfather to a kid from…

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