An edition of Lucky girl (2009)

Lucky girl

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An edition of Lucky girl (2009)

Lucky girl

1st pbk. ed.
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In a true story of family ties, journalist 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.

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English
Pages
249

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Cover of: Lucky Girl
Lucky Girl
2010, Algonquin Books
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Cover of: Lucky girl
Lucky girl
2010, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English - 1st pbk. ed.
Cover of: Lucky Girl
Lucky Girl
2010, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English
Cover of: Lucky Girl
Lucky Girl: A Memoir
2009-04-28, Algonquin Books
Cover of: Lucky girl
Lucky girl
2009, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

"Reader's guide inside"--Page 4 of cover.

Published in
Chapel Hill, N.C

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.734, 362.7340973
Library of Congress
E184.T35 H67 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
249 pages
Number of pages
249

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28287158M
Internet Archive
luckygirl0000hopg
ISBN 10
1565129822
ISBN 13
9781565129825
OCLC/WorldCat
435422239

Work Description

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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