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Lucky Girl (Paperback): Mei-Ling Hopgood

Lucky Girl (Paperback)

Mei-Ling Hopgood

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In a true story of family ties, journalist Mei-Ling Hopgood, one of the first wave of Asian adoptees to arrive in America, comes face to face with her past when her Chinese birth family suddenly requests a reunion after more than two decades.
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.

General

Imprint: Algonquin Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2010
First published: June 2010
Authors: Mei-Ling Hopgood
Dimensions: 206 x 137 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-982-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > Adoption & tracing birth parents
Books > Biography > General
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LSN: 1-56512-982-2
Barcode: 9781565129825

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