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Read a new excerpt from Lee Langvad's novel MY INTERPRETER, translated from Danish by Hazel Evans. An adoptee narrator who lives in Denmark goes for a meal at her biological family's home in South Korea. During the visit, an interpreter must translate between her and her parents.
Thanks Amy Roost and @hippocampusmag.bsky.social for this deeply thoughtful review of Relative Strangers. www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/06/revi...
NEW! In this #memoir, Baby Scoop Era #adoptee Heather Massey describes her experience growing up as a geek in an adoptive family of normies who later in life reunites with her first mother & discovers her grandmother’s role in her #adoption.
"I wasn’t just writing about the dead, or my adoption, I was writing myself back to life, until eventually, I arrived at a new life, unimaginable before I fell ill. Writing became ceremony."
#adoptees #AdopteeVoices
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Hello again, adoptee readers!
This post explains why our website was inaccessible for several months.
Adoptee Reading is now back online & ready to continue helping adopted people discover #adoption literature from the #adoptee perspective.
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NEW! Paige Towers interrogates the legacy of the Holt Adoption Program in Korea via the investigation of an adoptive father who murdered his children. #adoption #adoptees #Korea
I’m excited to share that the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship will be published on June 23 by ELJ Editions. Learn more, preorder, and see the event schedule here: www.bkjacksonwriter.com/book
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The South Korean gov't has recently begun to investigate its role in fraudulent adoptions. For @thebaffler.com, I reviewed a new book about how a messianic quest to “save” Korean children created the intercountry adoption industry and is bound up with a familicide: thebaffler.com/latest/god-s...
The first chapter of THE MINIMALIST, my psychological horror novel of classical music & adoptee identity, is now available online at Criminal Elements!
This was such a personal novel for me to write as an adoptee and classical musician & I'm so excited to share more!
Read here: tr.ee/DsAMYT 🥚
Hello again, adoptee readers! Some of you may have noticed that Adoptee Reading has been inaccessible for many months. In late 2025, I realized that the site was being inundated with traffic origin…
Korean adoptee Mee Ok Icaro shares how illness, grief, plant medicine, and writing led her back to her adoption story—and ultimately helped her reclaim her voice, identity, and sense of belonging.
Weirdo: Tales of a Geek Adoptee delivers an inside look at adoption during the Baby Scoop Era, chronicling a shocking part of American history that should never be forgotten. Relinquished for adoption in the late 1960s, Heather Massey grew up knowing few details about her origins, with the rest shrouded in secrecy. Yet one fact was certain: she was a geek in a family of normies who couldn't understand her passion for anime and science fiction.
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In this excerpt from Lee Langvad's novel My Interpreter – translated from Danish by Hazel Evans – an adoptee narrator who lives in Denmark goes for a…
In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration of tens of thousands of Korean children to the United States over the following decades. The Sueppels were among the families profoundly shaped by the legacy of the Holt Adoption Program.
So honored to share that WONDERLAND: Memoir of a Black-Market Adoption is the True Crime Winner of the 15th Annual IndieReader Discovery Awards. 1,000+ submissions. Deeply grateful. Nov. 3rd @unsolicitedpress @indiereader 🥚
#WonderlandMemoir #IndieReader #TrueCrime #Adoptee #BlackMarketAdoption
