pickI liked this book. The story is about a young boy who is the son of an immigrant Chinese mother. One day she goes to work & never comes home. The boy is soon adopted by an American couple. He tries to fit in to his new life but he never quite does. As an adult he tries to track his mother down & finds out she was deported back to China. The story is told in alternating points of view until they find each other & all his questions are answered.
pickAfter a bit of a slow I had a hard time putting this down. Adoption has some shady ass roots thanks to Georgia Tann. Both a heartbreaking and heartwarming story.
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pickThis feels like a Woman's Prize book. I would not be surprised to see this on their list next year.
I think putting it on the Booker list was a mistake, but I personally really enjoyed it. I thought it gave a great overview of T&T from the 70-90s Though it was an incredibly White view that the author could have addressed better.
As someone who was left at a hospital in 1980, and who was adopted, I found this incredibly interesting on that front.
pickA very interesting book about international adoption mainly US families adopting from China. The author researched a lot of the book in late 2019 and her trips to China at that time made it all the more interesting. #TurnThePage book 1.
I paused, mid-step, at the sound of a low hum. A hummingbird, not much bigger than a bumblebee, withdrawing itself carefully from one of the trumpet-shaped flowers. I watched the little glittering body, the blur of wings. It held itself steady for a moment, as if considering the options, and then it moved towards the next flower, the petals splayed open in welcome. It disappeared inside, became a shadow behind the bright yellow petals.
