Table of Contents: August 2016

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Feature

[BOOK EXCERPT] The Hundred-Year Flood

In Matthew Salesses’s poetic debut—one of the first novels written by a transracial adoptee with a transracial adoptee protagonist—a young man flees his crumbling family in America for Prague. As he finds some of the answers he’s been seeking his whole life, storms give way to a flood that slowly engulfs the city. Read an excerpt followed by a Q&A with the author. | BY MATTHEW SALESSES

Personal Essay

“To Seek, But Not Find“

We don’t hear much about the birth mother searches that don’t end with reunions—how do you explain that your heart is breaking for someone you’ve never known? But I am sharing my story in the hope that others may learn from my journey. | BY EMILY GREENE THORNTON

The Experts

Raising Black Children to Become Black Adults

Black parents teach their children what awaits them outside the safety of their homes. White parents who have transracially adopted Black children must do the same. | BY CHAD GOLLER-SOJOURNER