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    China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Pas

    By Jeff Gammage

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    Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage—a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer—and his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would carry them across a shifting landscape of emotion and through miles of red tape and bureaucratic protocol. On the other side of the world—in the smog-choked city of Changsha in Hunan Province—a silent, stoic little girl was waiting for them: Jin Yu, their new daughter. Now they would have to learn how to fully embrace a life altered beyond recognition by new concerns and responsibilities—and by a love unlike any they'd ever felt before.

    Alive with insight and feeling, China Ghosts is an eye-opening depiction of the foreign adoption process and a remarkable glimpse into a different culture. Most important, it is a poignant, heartfelt, and intensely intimate chronicle of the making of a family.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061871627
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      This is written from the prospective of a man becoming a father after 40, having been married over 15 years. He is in awe of his new daughter. At first, Jin-Yu, age 2, shows no reaction to these new people in her life, taking her away from everything she has ever known. The new parents begin to wonder if something is wrong with her. Then the dam breaks and they can do nothing to console her. They are at a loss of what to do. She soon adapts to her new parents. Her father is interested in trying to find her birth parents, whom he calls "ghosts", to assure them she is loved and taken care of. He has little success.When the family goes back to China to adopt a second child, Jin-Yu asks if they are leaving her in China. This is a great book if you are thinking of international adoption or are just interested in people who have adopted children.