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A Euro-American on a Korean Tour at a Thai Restaurant in China
by Chris Winston
When Euro-American parents adopt children from other countries their level of understanding of who they themselves are will be tested. Their capability in handling those obstacles that arise in their path will be an important part of the adoption experience for their children and for themselves.
With each chapter examining issues that interethnic adoptive families experience, Chris Winston weaves her own perspective on her adoption experience with perspectives related to her by her own children, adopted adults, other adoptive parents, birth parents, Koreans, Korean Americans, and Asian Americans. While the book's focus is on experiences with Korean adoption, the experiences are transferable to inter-ethnic adoptions from any country.
$25.95
Pushing Up The Sky
by Terra Trevor
In 1987, Terra Trevor and her husband Gary adopted a ten-year-old daughter from South Korea. Her new daughter experienced difficulty adjusting to becoming the oldest child in a mixed blood American Indian-Caucasian family. Her birth daughter, usurped from oldest to middle child, had a difficult transition too. Then her son, also adopted from Korea, was diagnosed with a brain tumor, an event that changed all of their lives forever.
This is the story of a remarkable family facing incredible challenges of cancer while simultaneously figuring out how to weave their adopted children's Korean heritage and racial ethnicity into their family. It is a story of compromises and insights, profound joy, deep suffering, and terrific rewards. Parenting birth and adopted children - is one theme of this book. Most of all, it is a story on the meaning of family, and learning to let go of expectations and to forge a new identity.
$25.95
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