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.
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