Join us on Saturday, June 28, 2025 for our next installment of Adoptee Book Club! In “You Should Be Grateful,” author Angela 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.

Angela Tucker is a Black transracial adoptee. She is the author of "You Should Be Grateful:" Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption. Her book was published in April 2023 by Beacon Press. Angela's search for her biological family is featured in the documentary CLOSURE which premiered on Netflix in 2015. In 2022, Angela founded the non-profit, the Adoptee Mentoring Society to provide virtual mentorship for adoptees world-wide. With 15 years in child welfare, she has appeared on CNN, The Red Table Talk, The New Yorker, and more, advocating for adoptees. Angela lives in Seattle with her Emmy-award-winning spouse, Bryan Tucker.