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China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

9 best books like China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood (Jeff Gammage): The World That We Knew, Maine, After the Flood, The Lost Daughters of China, Bound Feet & Western Dress, Under the Net, Bee Season, Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China, Burning Sky

The World That We Knew
AuthorAlice Hoffman
ISBN1501137573
In 1941, during humanity’s darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman.

In Berlin, at the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows...
Maine
AuthorJ. Courtney Sullivan
ISBN0307595129
In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common...
After the Flood
AuthorKassandra Montag
ISBN0062889397
An inventive and riveting epic saga, After the Flood signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.

A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great...
The Lost Daughters of China
AuthorKarin Evans
ISBN1585421170
The author, Karin Evans, blends the story of adopting her daughter with an exploration of the conditions in China (e.g., poverty, the so-called "one child" policy) that have led to orphanages being filled with baby girls. I found parts of the book fascinating and eye-opening, but overall, I was left...
Bound Feet & Western Dress
AuthorPang-Mei Natasha Chang
ISBN0385479646
"In China, a woman is nothing."

Thus begins the saga of a woman born at the turn of the century to a well-to-do, highly respected Chinese family, a woman who continually defied the expectations of her family and the traditions of her culture. Growing up in the perilous years between the fall of...
Under the Net
AuthorIris Murdoch
ISBN0140014454
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher.

Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’...
Bee Season
AuthorMyla Goldberg
ISBN0385498802
Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But...
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
AuthorKay Ann Johnson
ISBN0963847279
Kay Johnson has done groundbreaking research on abandonment and adoption in China. In Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son, Johnson untangles the complex interactions between these social practices and the government's population policies. She also documents the many unintended consequences,...
Burning Sky
AuthorLori Benton
ISBN0307731472
Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling...
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