China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
by Jeff Gammage

China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood
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Author: Jeff Gammage
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-01
ISBN: 0061240303
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Book Reviews of China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

Book Review: A Book That is Food For the Soul
Summary: 5 Stars

Do not miss this book and the story of an extraordinary family
and their personal and heart-wrenching journey into China and
the adoption process. The narrative has stayed with me months
after reading it.I was impressed by the gut-level involvement,
emotionality and empathy of the father - something that is not
commonly revealed in American family life.

Summary of China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

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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