title: The Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their Journey to America, and Their Searchfor a Missing Past
author:  Karin Evans 
description: <I>The Lost Daughters of China</I> is that rare book that can be many things to different people. Part memoir, part travelogue, part East-West cultural commentary, and part adoption how-to, Karin Evans's book is greater than the sum of its parts. Evans weaves together her experience of adopting a Chinese infant with observations about Chinese women's history and that country's restrictive, if unevenly enforced, reproductive policies. She and her husband adopted Kelly Xiao Yu in 1997, and anyone curious about adopting from a Chinese orphanage--which houses girls and disabled boys--will learn about the mechanics and the emotional freight of the two-year process. Borrowing an image from Chinese folklore, Evans conveys herself, her husband, and their daughter as tethered by a red string that yoked them across an ocean and an equally awesome cultural divide.
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  HUNTING GROUND
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Meghan Holloway
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The following is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events and
  incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in an
  entirely fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
  is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by A. Meghan Holloway
  
  
  Cover and jacket design by Mimi Bark
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN 978-1-947993-98-3
  
  
  eISBN: 978-1-951709-14-3
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: tk
  
  
  
  
  
  First trade paperback edition May 2020 by Polis Books, LLC
  
  
  221 River St., 9th Fl., #9070
  
  
  Hoboken, NJ PolisBooks.com
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For the women who have disappeared,
  
  
  for the women who have felt their vulnerability,
  
  
  for the women who have been forgotten
  
  
  
  
  
  And for those who loved them, searched for them,
  
  
  and remembered them
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  