{"product_id":"9781451610956","title":"Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love","description":"Following her internationally bestselling book \u003ci\u003eThe Good Women of China, \u003c\/i\u003eXinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswomen, midwives, peasants—who have given up their daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions, or hideous economic necessity, these women had to give up their daughters for adoption; others even had to watch as their baby daughters were taken away at birth and drowned. Xinran beautifully portrays the “extra-birth guerrillas” who travel the roads and the railways, evading the system, trying to hold on to more than one baby; naïve young girl students who have made life-wrecking mistakes; the “pebble mother” on the banks of the Yangzte River still looking into the depths for her stolen daughter; peasant women rejected by their families because they can’t produce a male heir; and Little Snow, the orphaned baby fostered by Xinran but confiscated by the state. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor parents of adopted Chinese children and for the children themselves, this is an indispensable, powerful, and intensely moving book. \u003ci\u003eMessage from an Unknown Chinese Mother \u003c\/i\u003eis powered by love and by heartbreak and will stay with readers long after they have turned the final page.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128782897392,"sku":"9781451610956","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451610956_p0.jpg?v=1763839806","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451610956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}