Ep. 45 Vanessa McGrady on Adoption and Memoirs

Today on The Stacks, author and journalist Vanessa McGrady talks with us about her new book, Rock Needs River, a memoir about becoming a mother through open adoption. We also talk about micro-aggressions , dark and twisty memoirs, and some of Vanessa's favorite books about adoption.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon

• Rock Needs River by Vanessa McGrady

• The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritikin and Patrick M. McGrady

• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

• Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew

• God and Jetfire by Amy Seek

• The Kid by Dan Savage

• Corduroy by Don Freeman

• The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

• The Bible by Christian Art Publishers

• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

• Mayfly by Jeff Sweat

• Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Marquez

• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez

• Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

• Girl Boner by August McLaughlin

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Heavy by Kiese Laymon

• Hunger by Roxane Gay

• Becoming by Michelle Obama

• Educated by Tara Westover

• Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• When You Read This by Mary Adkins

• He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt

• The Rules by Sherri Schneider

• Shared Tables by Kaumudi Marathe

• A Higher Loyalty by James Comey

• Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• Fear by Bob Woodward

• Great Again by Donald Trump

• Isabel Allende

• Anna Quindlen

• Barbara Kingsolver

• Maya Angelou

• Barbara (Stanny) Huson

• The Hormone Reset Diet by Sara Gottfried M.D.

• Instant Mom by Nia Vardalos

• Twilight by Stephanie Meyer

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• Beloved by Toni Morrison

• Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

• The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

• Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

• The 13th Continuum by Jennifer Brody

• "I Won't Let My 4-Year-Old Daughter Grow Up Stepping Aside for Sexism, Like I Did" (Vanessa McGrady, Jezebel)

• "Why Men Need To Stop Making This Joke About Women And Money" (Vanessa McGrady, Forbes)

• The Kinship Center

• The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)

• Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)

• Mad Max (George Miller, 1977)

• The Is Us (NBC)

• Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013)

• Ep. 20 Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates -- The Stacks Book Club (The Stacks)

• Amazon Kindle

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Joel Zwick, 2002)

• Beloved (Jonathan Demme, 1998)

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