July 12, 2023

7:30 pm / 8:30 pm

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Venue

**Online**

Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York

Organizer

Coalition’s Summer Book Read 2023

“You Should Be Grateful” STORIES OF RACE, IDENTITY, AND TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION By Angela Tucker

Join us for our annual summer book read! 

This summer we will share Angela Tucker’s new book “You Should Be Grateful”.
 
Angela is a supporter of the Coalition as well as a transracial adult adoptee who shares her well rounded perspective on being a child adopted into a white middle class family and how she navigated being raised in a primarily white space, identity formation and eventually finding her birth family and the thoughts feelings and reality that brings. 
 
Join us in the BOOK CLUB SPACE in the AFFCNY.Network where we can share our thoughts and feelings, ask questions and have conversations. Ellen Earley, an adult adoptee and Felix Marquez, an adoptive parent, will post prompts weekly to further discussion. We will have two virtual opportunities to gather via zoom, one will be with the author, Angela Tucker, herself  on August 30th! 
 
Fill out the RSVP form below to receive reminders and direct notifications of the Book Club events!
 
This is a “don’t miss” event. Angela’s book details not just her life but the thoughts and feelings so many transracial and same race adoptees face when it comes to the weight of others expectations. The compassion and understanding she brings to the delicate balance that is adoption will resonate with all involved in the constellation. This will help adoptive parents gain a new perspective on what it means to be a transracial family and give adoptees a sense of connection and belonging to their unique world.

Join us weekly to share your thoughts and feelings and connect with others who have different, but beautifully made families. 

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How the Summer Book Read Works

This “book club” discussion will be hosted within the Coalition’s support network.  Once again, our team will lead the “book club” as we read, explore and discuss the book.  Each week participants will be assigned pages to read. On Wednesdays, Ellen and Felix will comment on the reading and start discussion. Participants may comment, share ideas and ask questions about the readings. Questions will be answered by facilitators, other AFFCNY staff or peers participating in the reading. A lively discussion will ensue! Then, the Book Club will meet virtually on Zoom on August 2 and will culminate with the author Angel Tucker on August 3oth!

Ready to join the Coalition’s Book Club?

Just fill out the registration form here and follow the instructions!

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About the Book: “You Should Be Grateful” STORIES OF RACE, IDENTITY, AND TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION
You should be grateful BOOK by ANGELA TUCKER

About the Author, Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker is a Black woman adopted from foster care to white parents. She is the author of YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL: Stories of Race Identity, and Transracial Adoption, the Founder of the Adoptee Mentoring Society, the subject of Closure, a documentary that chronicles her search for her biological parents, and has over 15 years of experience working within adoption and foster care agencies. Her mission to center adoptees is evident in her podcast, The Adoptee Next Door, the five short films that she has produced and her work consulting with media outlets like NBC’s This Is Us.

Angela lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, Bryan Tucker, an Emmy-award winning filmmaker.

More at: https://www.angelatucker.com/   Join Angela’s own book club here.