{"product_id":"9781554903207","title":"The Lucky Ones: Our Stories of Adopting Children from China","description":"\u003cp\u003e“What a lucky girl!” Everybody who has adopted a daughter from China has heard that one. And every parent has said, or thought, in reply:  “No, we’re the lucky ones.” This anthology sets out to explain why people who have adopted children from China feel as though they’ve won the lottery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the late 1980s, as many as 7,000 Chinese-born girls have been adopted annually and now live in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. They are officially orphans, victims of a rigorous birth control policy limiting most families to one child. These thousands of girls have formed an international Diaspora, a human wave with no exact parallel and yet numerous points of comparison – sharing issues with war orphans from Vietnam or even with Chinese workers who built the New World’s railroads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe memoirs collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Lucky Ones\u003c\/em\u003e are organized beginning with infertility, moving to acceptance of a multiracial family, anticipating the adoption, reflecting during the trip to China and, at last, grappling with an odd destiny – turning terrible beginnings into happy endings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of these girls is compelling as a narrative of hope and optimism but it may also become a story of dislocation and crisis of identity. These baby immigrants add unusual texture to the lives of the families they join – they come here not by choice but by someone else’s design.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133722116336,"sku":"9781554903207","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554903207_p0.jpg?v=1763756497","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554903207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}