Including More Than 450 Adoptee-Recommended Titles!

Books About Intercountry Adoptions from Taiwan

  • Beyond Two Worlds: A Taiwanese-American Adoptee’s Memoir & Search for Identity

    Beyond Two Worlds: A Taiwanese-American Adoptee’s Memoir & Search for Identity

    by Marijane Huang

    Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Marijane was adopted by an American military family at four months old. She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in the deep South where hers was the only Asian face among a majority of white. Raised to believe she was Vietnamese…

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  • Lucky Girl

    Lucky Girl

    by Mei-Ling Hopgood

    In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades. In 1974,…

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  • When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

    When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology

    Edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung

    There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres. These tales from fifteen bestselling,…

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