Shannon Gibney Books in Order

Sixteen-year-old Alex, a biracial baseball player adopted by a white family, questions her identity after finding hidden letters from her birth father. As her body and relationships change, she must reconsider the role baseball plays in her life.

Five generations of one family struggle with slavery, exile and the search for freedom between Liberia and America. Their intertwined stories reach from an enslaved Virginia woman to a Liberian refugee sent back to a country he barely knows.

Shannon Gibney combines memoir with speculative fiction to explore her adoption by white parents and the life she might have lived as Erin Powers. Photographs, documents and imagined encounters examine race, family and the possibilities of another identity.