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Your parents are so amazing for adopting you! You should be grateful that you were adopted. Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life, usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors. She is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily. In You Should Be Grateful, Tucker centers the experiences of adoptees to share deeply personal stories, well-researched history, and engrossing anecdotes from mentorship sessions with adopted youth. These perspectives challenge the fairy-tale narrative of adoption, giving way to a fuller story that explores the impacts of racism, classism, family, love, and belonging.

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Angela Tucker is the executive director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society and a well-known voice in the conversation about interracial adoption. Through The Adopted Life, LLC, she blogs, offers regular consulting for agencies and families, hosts monthly Adoptee Lounges for adult adoptees, and spends her weekends mentoring adopted youth. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband. Angela Tucker is the executive director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society and a well-known voice in the conversation about interracial adoption. Through The Adopted Life, LLC, she blogs, offers regular consulting for agencies and families, hosts monthly Adoptee Lounges for adult adoptees, and spends her weekends mentoring adopted youth. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Seattle Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her husband.

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