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Lucky Girl
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Description
In 1974, a baby girl from Taiwan arrived in America, the newly adopted child of a loving couple in Michigan. Mei-Ling Hopgood had an all-American upbringing, never really identifying with her Asian roots or harboring a desire to uncover her ancestry. She believed that she was lucky to have escaped a life that was surely one of poverty and misery, to grow up comfortable with her doting parents and brothers.
Then, when she's in her twenties, her birth family comes calling. Not the rural peasants she expected, they are a boisterous, loving, bossy, complicated middle-class family who hound her daily-by phone, fax, and letter, in a language she doesn't understand-until she returns to Taiwan to meet them. As her sisters and parents pull her into their lives, claiming her as one of their own, the devastating secrets that still haunt this family begin to emerge. Spanning cultures and continents, Lucky Girl brings home a tale of joy and regret, hilarity, deep sadness, and great discovery as the author untangles the unlikely strands that formed her destiny.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2010-06-15
Publication Date:
2010-06-15
Publisher:
Algonquin Books
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1565129822
ISBN13:
9781565129825
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
377 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
210 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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