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.

About the author

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.

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: 133 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; 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, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Cultural & Regional, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Asian & Asian American