China Ghosts - by Jeff Gammage (Paperback)

About the Book

Moving from the U.S. to China and back, here is a poignant true story of fatherhood, family, and one determined couples triumphant struggle to adopt a baby in a foreign land.

From the Back Cover

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.

Review Quotes

"The most informative and heartfelt book I've read about the adoption of girls from China. Jeff Gammage has a big and good heart, so he doesn't shy away from the deepest emotions--positive, negative, and ambivalent--that come with changing his family so abruptly and irrevocably." - Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
"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
"Touching . . . Gammage's beautifully written memoir, which weaves together emotionally wrenching narrative with insightful social commentary, will resonate with any American who has taken the same journey . . . " - Philadelphia Inquirer
"A love story between father and daughter . . . Powerful emotions." - Washington Post Book World