China Ghosts : My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
Author(s): Jeff Gammage
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.
Review(s):
“A love story between father and daughter . . . Powerful emotions.”
“Revealing . . . thoughtful . . . A father-daughter love story from a sensitive writer who doesn’t neglect thorny issues of race and culture.”
“[A] moving geographic and psychological odyssey to China.”
ISBN: 9780061240300