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.

Books

• 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

Everything Else

• “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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