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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Gammage
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2008
• EAN: 9780061240300
• ISBN: 978-0-06-124030-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Biography: general, Asia, social and political philosophy, History of Art, History of Science, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, Travel and holiday, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, Biography: historical, political and military, Plays, Playscripts, Political leaders and leadership, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering, HISTORY: WORLD, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Parenting / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: General, TRAVEL: Asia / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY: Asia / China, TRAVEL: Asia / East / China, The arts: general topics, Subject matter intended specifically for women and/or girls, Subject matter intended specifically for men and/or boys, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Asian & Asian American