Adoption Reading Challenge

[marydell]

Jenna at The Chronicles of Munchkinland has started a cool reading challenge for 2011 - you can read about it over here.  I'm just doing level one (3 books) because these days I count it as a good year if I manage to read 10 whole books.

For those interested in doing it and looking for a good starting point, I highly recommend The Kid by Dan Savage.  I'm not sure what I'll start with--I've been wanting to buy Lois Malina's The Open Adoption Experience for a while now (I like her Raising Adopted Children quite a lot) so I may go for that, but I'm more in the mood for a memoir at the moment, so maybe I'll look in that direction instead.

If anyone can recommend a book about international open adoption, I'd be delighted--I haven't found one yet. Most adoptions are still one or the other (open or international), seldom both.  Ours isn't technically international but it's not strictly domestic either.

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[americanfamily.livejournal.com]

Mamalita is loosely about opening an international adoption, but it wasn't really that good of a book. There is Lucky Girl by Mei-ling Hopgood.

We recently located our daughter's birth family and will be meeting them next month. I have been thinking about setting up a small group for families with open Chinese adoptions once we get back, if you are interested. I can't remember, did your son's family go back to China (or was it Taiwan?) or are they still here?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I'll look for Lucky Girl. I had seen Mamalita but didn't know there was an open adoption angle...I generally avoid books about "the struggle to adopt" since I'm still a bit chapped from my own adventures ;)

That's so exciting, that you'll be meeting L's birth family! I hope it goes really well. I'd definitely be interested in joining a group if you start one. Charlie's birth parents are still in the US, for a couple more years at least. They're from mainland China.