Book Awards Series: Shannon Gibney and Sun Yung Shin

Book Awards Series: Shannon Gibney and Sun Yung Shin 

Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
East Side Freedom Library, Saint Paul, MN 55106

Join the East Side Freedom Library as we welcome Shannon Gibney, co-editor and contributor, and Sun Yung Shin, contributing author for When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology. This Minnesota Book Award Finalist selection is an emotion-filled collection that features 17 authors whose stories tell us important lessons about culture beyond a message to adoptees.

There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres.

These tales from fourteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.

This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives.