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5.0 out of 5 stars
Amazing Book, I couldn't put it down, Jun 18 2010
This review is from: Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love (Hardcover)
As a mom to a 2 year old from China, I have not had time to read more than one page at a sitting since she came home almost a year and a half ago. But I could not put this book down and finished it in just a few days. If she had gone to bed earlier and I didn't have to go to work the next day, I would have finished it the same day/evening I started it. I am already wanting to read it a second time.
A MUST READ for any family who plans to or has adopted from China. It gives great cultural perspective to gain a better understanding of the vast array of possibilities of how and why our children may have come into orphanage care. I truly cannot believe that someone could read this and NOT feel compassion towards their child's birth family, if they didn't already. While some of the stories are not shocking to me (based on having already done much reading on the subject of child abandonment and orphanage care in China), the information is more personal and a very good balance to other text. It's a must have in your library if you are a family with a child from China.
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