Books

Information/Research on MKs and TCKs

• Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, Pollock and Van Reken
• Between Worlds: Essays on Culture and Belonging, Marilyn Garnder
• Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere: Insights Into Counseling the Globally Mobile, Lois Bushong
• Unstacking Your Grief Tower: A Guide to Processing Grief as an Adult Third Culture Kid, Lauren Wells
• The Lost MK, Robin Kietzman and Patricia Pike

Memoirs

• Sent: Reflections on Mission, Boarding School and Childhood, Anstini, Dainton, Chenoweth
• Things Fell Apart, but the Center Held, Dianne Darr Couts
• Uprooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global, Faith Eidse
• How Litte We Knew: Collusion and Confusion with Sexual Misconduct, Dee Ann Miller
• Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia, Tim Bascom
• Journeying Mercies: Tuesday Was Gone, Bob Neudorf
• The Missionary Myth, Vivian Palmer Harvey
• Seasons of Myself, Joanne Burns Williams
• Africa in My Soul: Memoir of a Childhood Interrupted, Cheryl King Duvall
• Running to the Fire: An American Missionary Comes of Age in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Tim Bascom
• Abraham’s Daughter: Healing Trauma from a Childhood in Missions, Joy Smalley

Fiction

• The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Dorm, Emma Abrams
• The Shack, Wm Paul Young
• So Far From Free: A son’s peril. A mother’s anguish, Rachel Steffen 
• The Mountain Dreamer, Rachel Steffen
• Guided by Heart, Rachel Steffen

Abuse in Religious Settings

• The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused, Andrew Schmutzer
• Enlarging Boston’s Spotlight: A Call for Courage, Integrity and Institutional Transformation, Dee Ann Miller
• Naming Our Abuse: God’s Pathways to Healing for Male Sexual Abuse Survivors, Andrew Schmutzer
• Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matter, Wess Stafford
• Religious Trauma Survival Guide: Education and Recovery Tools for Survivors and Professionals, Anna Clark Miller

The resources we have listed are offered as suggestions for insights into the MK experience or for insights into abuse and its effects. Suggesting these links does not mean that MKSN endorses everything in them. This is an ever-evolving list and will be updated on a regular basis. If you have any resources you would like to suggest, please send those to us at mksafetynet@gmail.com.