You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption by Angela Tucker

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meikac's review

5.0
hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

paigereitz's review

5.0
emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
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juliagp's review

5.0
Really wonderfully written and full of fascinating insights. I really learned a lot, even coming from a perspective of knowing a bit about family law and family policing but knowing so little about adoption.
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christie_esau's review

4.0
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A really meaningful memoir about racial identity and transracial adoption, and the complexity of reunification.
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hopeanne's review against another edition

3.25
informative reflective slow-paced

jmonsalve2's review against another edition

4.25
fast-paced

roketmomm's review against another edition

4.5
challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Excellent adoptee perspective 

kah296's review

5.0
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Angela Tucker concisely and emphatically unpacks the problems with the adoption industry and how our society views adoption, particularly when it comes to transracial adoption. Her solutions are intuitive but big and she stops short of taking a position on many of the issues she tackles in this book, which could be frustrating but I appreciate her resolve not to draw up a list of superficial steps adoptive parents and communities can point to for absolution. The language that she crafts for adoptees to describe the feelings that haven’t been afforded language in the mainstream is beautiful and tender. This is definitely a book to which I hope to return. 

panda9826's review

3.5
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As a TRA I found this book close to heart of course. I think it was well written and very informative. I was not hooked and found myself putting the book down for a month. I appreciate the POV from a fellow TRA and find the story about her bio mom heartwarming and so very challenging. 
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allonsyechoes's review against another edition

4.0
challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced