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AUGUST 2007

Adoptive Families’ Summer Reading Guide

It’s July, and time for Adoptive Families’ yearly crop of summer reading picks. Below, you’ll find powerful adoption memoir excerpts. To the right, you’ll see our first annual Best Adoption Books list. Visit AF’s bookstore for even more recommendations. Happy reading!

Love in the Driest Season
by Neely Tucker
“She blinked again. Then she reached out and, in a wobbling gesture, wrapped her hand around my little finger....” Read more.

China Ghosts
by Jeff Gammage
“These kids, with their wan smiles and growling stomachs, follow you across the ocean, move into your house....” Read more.

The Mistress’s Daughter
by A.M. Homes
“I have allowed this because I understand the need for proof, for some true measure of our relationship....” Read more.
AF PICKS: Best Memoirs

The Waiting Child, by Cindy Champnella
•I Wish for You a Beautiful Life, Sara
    Dorow, ed.
•Borrowed Finery, by Paula Fox
•ITHAKA: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being
    Found
, by Sarah Saffian
•The Kid, by Dan Savage
•In Their Own Voices, by Rita J. Simon and
    Rhonda M. Roorda
•An Empty Lap, by Jill Smolowe
•Love in the Driest Season, by Neely
    Tucker
•The Adoption Reader, Susan Wadia-Ells,
    ed.
•Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother, by
    Jana Wolff

AF PICKS: Best Adoption Storybooks

•Sam’s Sister, by Juliet C. Bond; illustrated
    by Dawn Majewski
•How I Was Adopted, by Joanna Cole;
    illustrated by Maxie Chambliss

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