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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
As a transracial adoptee, there was no way I was not going to read When We Became Ours. This anthology means more to me than words. Growing up I never saw stories about adopted kids. This anthology soothes a wound I didn't have words for until now. In this genre bending anthology, these fellow adoptees navigate feelings of family and belonging. Of growing up as a person of color and feeling that as something familiar and foreign in faces on the streets like us.
As a transracial adoptee, there was no way I was not going to read When We Became Ours. This anthology means more to me than words. Growing up I never saw stories about adopted kids. This anthology soothes a wound I didn't have words for until now. In this genre bending anthology, these fellow adoptees navigate feelings of family and belonging. Of growing up as a person of color and feeling that as something familiar and foreign in faces on the streets like us.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
When We Become Ours is a captivating anthology about grief, identity, and belonging. It’s written by adoptees and about adoptees, and as a whole I’ve never read something quite like it.
As the Foreword and Afterword both explain, it’s not often that adoptees have the space to share their own stories and be heard. Often, our stories are told for us, sometimes (often) in an incomplete or biased way.
As an adoptee, I loved reading these stories, which span a variety of genres and formats. One of my favorites is about a fantasy land where the Heavenly Queen ascends to the throne only after all her family has been murdered. In another, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom (Palimpsest) illustrates a young adoptee's connection with her internet friend. Reading these pieces made me feel so seen and understood, and I wish I’d had stories like these growing up. I am so glad that the younger adoptees will now have it.
If you think you know how your adopted (friend/child/sibling/cousin/neighbor) feels, perhaps this book is for you. If you’re adopted and seeking to be heard, perhaps this book is for you. Or maybe you have no connection to adoption at all, and you’re just feeling a little invisible. The adoptees in these stories will understand. So many of these stories are about how precious it is to feel seen, and there is something for everyone here.
Personally, this is now a must-read for me.
Thank you NetGalley and HarperTeen for providing me with this (my first!) ARC!
As the Foreword and Afterword both explain, it’s not often that adoptees have the space to share their own stories and be heard. Often, our stories are told for us, sometimes (often) in an incomplete or biased way.
As an adoptee, I loved reading these stories, which span a variety of genres and formats. One of my favorites is about a fantasy land where the Heavenly Queen ascends to the throne only after all her family has been murdered. In another, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom (Palimpsest) illustrates a young adoptee's connection with her internet friend. Reading these pieces made me feel so seen and understood, and I wish I’d had stories like these growing up. I am so glad that the younger adoptees will now have it.
If you think you know how your adopted (friend/child/sibling/cousin/neighbor) feels, perhaps this book is for you. If you’re adopted and seeking to be heard, perhaps this book is for you. Or maybe you have no connection to adoption at all, and you’re just feeling a little invisible. The adoptees in these stories will understand. So many of these stories are about how precious it is to feel seen, and there is something for everyone here.
Personally, this is now a must-read for me.
Thank you NetGalley and HarperTeen for providing me with this (my first!) ARC!
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced