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When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Shannon Gibney, Nicole Chung
4.0
challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

I usually struggle with anthologies and story collection, but this piqued my interest. I was fascinated by the differing stories and found this collection helpful as a white woman for understanding and unlearning some of the harmful language I’ve use myself when interacting with adoptees in the past. I am glad this book exists, even if not every story was a knockout in my opinion. I appreciated the variety of stories even though they shared similar themes

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