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THE UNADOPTABLES
Disclaimer: I have only read the section of THE UNADOPTABLES that is available through Amazon.
On July 21, 2020, a book entitled THE UNADOPTABLES by Hana Tooke was released by Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Based on the description of the book, the story centers around five children who have been relinquished and attempt to escape the orphanage in search of their “real family”.
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#WhyIWrite
Reading the reviews for my forthcoming novel #InconvenientDaughter has me thinking a lot about #whyiwrite...
As the reviews for Inconvenient Daughterhave found their way to my inbox, I’ve been thinking a lot about why I write. As a teenager, I mainly wrote to document my life. I wanted so desperately to remember every last detail, not knowing eventually these would be people, places, and things I’d want to forget. As I got older, I wrote to understand – to understand my decisions, the decisions of…
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INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER
ABOUT THE BOOK
Rowan Kelly knows she’s lucky. After all, if she hadn’t been adopted, she could have spent her days in a rice paddy, or a windowless warehouse assembling iPhones–they make iPhones in Korea, right? Either way, slowly dying of boredom on Long Island is surely better than the alternative. But as she matures, she realizes that she’ll never know if she has her mother’s eyes, or if she’d…
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Dreams
I know it sounds like one of those things pretentious writers say, but it’s true – I always knew I was going to be a writer. It wasn’t the endless slew of unfinished journals or that I wrote the title of my novel (for a long time it was Trials and Tribulations of a Crazy Asian: Memoir of a Girlhood Behind Slanted Eyes) on the covers of marble notebooks…it wasn’t even that every time I wrote my…
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I Am Not a Virus
I Am Not a Virus
When I turn on the news, I see images of empty shelves at Costcos, Targets, and local supermarkets where hand sanitizer, toilet paper, and bottled water once stood. I see stock footage of people walking with face-masks, some stopping to speak to the camera about their fears. And, of course, I see the numbers of the virus’s victims, ever increasing, across the screen. What I don’t see, though, are…
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In conversation with ARSS
It was a pleasure to sit down with the ladies of Adoption RSS to talk #NAAM, #adopteelife, and everything in between! #nationaladoptionmonth #nationaladoptionawarenessmonth
According to the Children’s Bureau, “National Adoption Month is an initiative of the Children’s Bureau with a goal to increase national awareness and bring attention to the need for permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. foster care system.” However, as an adoptee, I think it’s important to use National Adoption Month to highlight the adoptee experience.
In an effort to turn the…
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Words Have Power
In honor of #NAAM, I am sharing the second installment of my #WordsHavePower campaign to highlight #adopteevoices and the #adopteeexperience. #nationaladoptionawarenessmonth
According to the Children’s Bureau, “National Adoption Month is an initiative of the Children’s Bureau with a goal to increase national awareness and bring attention to the need for permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. foster care system.” However, as an adoptee, I think it’s important to use National Adoption Month to highlight the adoptee experience. It is essential that our…
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October Update
They say winter is usually the source of blues for many people, but for me, I’m feeling a little down this fall. This is particularly strange since fall is my favorite season (which is weird considering I hate pumpkin-flavored anything). So, instead of being bummed out and unproductive, I figured I’d be bummed out and write a blog post instead lol.
Chicks Before Dicks
I hosted my first visitor…
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Sound of Pulling Heaven Down
Three years ago, I lost my cousin Alanna to breast cancer. Today, just for a moment, I forgot she was gone and called her. Now I realize maybe I was just wishing she was here.
Currently Listening to: Sound of Pulling Heaven Down, Justin Furstenfeld
I had a long list of things I always wanted to do: fall in love, travel the world, learn how to make French pastries. But only one thing was at the top of that list – publish a book.
When I got the news last April, I thought it was a dream. There were plenty of times during the draft where I wanted to give up. And in recent…
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Go Back
I let out a groan I was convinced could be heard on the second floor of the Barnes and Noble where Pete and I earned barely enough money to pay for beer, gas, and the occasional mozzarella cheese fries at the diner just across Glen Cove Road.
“Dude, what are they all doing here?”
“I don’t know,” Pete replied, flipping through the latest issue of PC Gamer. “This is the last place I’d be on a…
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ECHO
So grateful to @randysusanmeyer for including my essay, ECHO, in #WomenUnderScrutiny. I am hoping my struggle with #bodyimage and #selflove, can help someone else know the are not alone
Lauren J. Sharkey’s essay, ECHO, was selected as a *winner* in the Women Under Scrutiny:The (Dis)Comfort) of Our Bodies, Ourselves* contest. Women Under Scrutiny, compiled by Randy Susan Meyersand edited by Nancy MacDonald, is an honest, intimate examination of the relationships we have with our bodies, hair, and faces, how we’ve been treated by the world based on our appearance—and how we have…
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Asian American women are consistently victims of fetishization. I am grateful to the @aafcollective for giving me a space to share my story. Lauren J. Sharkey's essay, Gogo, was selected for inclusion in the Asian American Feminist Collective's FIRST TIMES digital storytelling project.
The Adoptee’s Journey is Lifelong - a personal essay on the evolution of what it means to be an #adoptee. I discovered I was adopted on my first day of kindergarten – I was five years old.
Words Have Power
My #WordsHavePower campaign sought to highlight the importance of words and their impact on adoptees. #adoptee #adopteeemovement
As a writer, words are everything. They are currency, they are blood…they are life. As an adoptee, words are also of great importance. In my next series of posts, I’ll be highlighting words that have had an impact on me as an adoptee. It’s my hope that by shining a spotlight on these words, non-adoptees will rethink and reevaluate how they speak to adoptees about adoption, and recognize the…
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In conversation with Alyssa Waugh
@AlyssaWaugh, editor of @blindfaithbooks' #IAMSTRENGTH anthology, was kind enough to chat with me about my essay "What All Survivors Know", which details my experience with #domesticviolence.
Reblogged from Blind Faith Books’ Official Facebook Page:
#IAMSTRENGTH #MeetTheContributors
Lauren J. Sharkey on her essay, “What All Survivors Know.”
AW: In or two sentences, what is your piece in this collection about?
LJS: When I was in college, I found myself in an emotionally and physically abusive relationship. This piece is about how one of my friends, Erin, tried to help me get out, and…
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Crazy Rich Asians
@CrazyRichMovie has made me feel seen, and I couldn't be more grateful, or proud, to be #Asian right now. #crazyrichasians
I don’t know if it’s like this anywhere else, but on Long Island – well, white, middle-class suburban Long Island – there’s an entire culture surrounding the debate of whether to send your child to a Catholic high school, or public high school.
The summer before eighth grade, my mother enrolled me in a Catholic High School Entrance Examination prep course at Chaminade High School. She then…
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Goodbye, Bertha
My car was my freedom, my escape, my safe space. And now it's time to say #goodbye :(
Dearest Bertha,
I’m not sure I ever told you this, but I never wanted you. No, I wanted the bright red Honda Civic on Hillside Ave. But Dad was helping me finance the purchase, and as such, we went with his pick. (more…)
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