Overview

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.

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Revealing . . . thoughtful . . . A father-daughter love story from a sensitive writer who doesn't neglect thorny issues of race and culture. --Kirkus Reviews

Revealing . . . thoughtful . . . A father-daughter love story from a sensitive writer who doesn't neglect thorny issues of race and culture. -- Kirkus Reviews

[A] moving geographic and psychological odyssey to China. --USA Today A love story between father and daughter . . . Powerful emotions. --Washington Post Book World Revealing . . . thoughtful . . . A father-daughter love story from a sensitive writer who doesn't neglect thorny issues of race and culture. --Kirkus Reviews Revealing . . . thoughtful . . . A father-daughter love story from a sensitive writer who doesn t neglect thorny issues of race and culture. --Kirkus Reviews [A] moving geographic and psychological odyssey to China. --USA Today A love story between father and daughter . . . Powerful emotions. --Washington Post Book World

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Jeff Gammage is a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He lives with his wife, Christine, and their daughters, Jin Yu and Zhao Gu, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

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