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My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
William Morrow
June 2007
On Sale: June 12, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 006124029X
EAN: 9780061240294
Hardcover
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"After eighteen years together, Christine and I are down to
our last hour as a couple. By dinner we will be a threesome.
It seems strange to stand so firmly atop a generational
fault line, to know that in an hour you'll be a parent, to
understand that your old life is disappearing before your
eyes, that a new one is about to begin. . . ." Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage and
his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would
carry them across a shifting landscape of
emotion—excitement, exhilaration, fear, apprehension—and
through miles of red tape and bureaucratic protocol, to a
breathtaking land on the other side of the world where a
little girl waited. When they met Jin Yu, a silent, stoic
two-year-old, in the smog-choked city of Changsha in Hunan
Province, they realized that every frustrating moment of
their two-year struggle was worth it. But they also realized
that another journey had only begun. Now there was much to
experience and learn. How do you comfort a crying toddler
when you and she speak different languages? How do you fully
embrace a life altered beyond recognition by new concerns,
responsibilities—and a love unlike any you've felt before? Alive with insight and feeling, China Ghosts is a
journalist's 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.
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