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Barcode33333003386139
StatusChecked Out
Circ StatusDue on 7/3/2025
LibraryBeaver
TitleDaughters of the bamboo grove / From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins Barbara Demick.
AuthorDemick, Barbara, author.
Call No362.734 Demick
CollectionNon-Fiction
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362.734 Demick Due on 7/3/2025BeaverNon-Fiction   333330033861392025
362.7 Demick Due on 7/5/2025AliquippaNon-Fiction   300000030658062025
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362.73 Demick AvailableChippewaNon-Fiction   312340025029022025

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593132746
Personal Name Demick, Barbara, author.
Title Statement Daughters of the bamboo grove / From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins Barbara Demick.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York, NY : Random House, [2025]
Physical Description pages cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary, Etc. "On a warm day in September 2000, a twenty-eight-year-old woman named Zanhua gave birth to twin girls in a small hut nestled in bamboo behind her brother's rural home in China's Hunan province. The twins, Fangfang and Shuangjie, were welcome additions toher young family but also not her first children. Hidden in the hut, they were born under the shadow of China's notorious one-child policy. Fearing the ire of family planning officials, Zanhua and her husband decided to leave one twin in the care of relatives, hoping each toddler on their own might stay under the radar. But, in late 2002, Fangfang was violently snatched away from her aunt's care. The family worried they would never see her again, but they didn't imagine she could be sent to the United States. She might as well have been sent to another world. Following her stories written as the Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, Barbara Demick, author of National Book Award finalist Nothing to Envy, embarks on a journey that encompasses theorigins, shocking cruelty, and long term impact of China's one-child rule; the rise of international adoption and the religious currents that buoyed it; and the exceedingly rare phenomenon of twin separation. Today, Esther--formerly Fangfang--is a photographer in Texas, and Demick brings to vivid life the Christian family that felt called to adopt her, having no idea that she was kidnapped. Through Demick's indefatigable reporting and the activist work to find these lost children, will these two long-lostsisters finally find each other, and if they do, will they feel whole again? A remarkable window into the volatile, constantly changing China of the last half century and the long-reaching legacy of the country's most infamous law, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove is also the moving story of two sisters torn apart by the forces of history and brought together again by their families' determination and one reporter's dogged work"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Adopted children United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Family reunification China.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Intercountry adoption China.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Intercountry adoption United States.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Twins China Social conditions.