Grace Dong-mei Parker is adopted. Of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, she was one of the lucky ones, taken by a loving family to start a new life in Canada. A typical teenager, she is reluctant to dwell upon the parts of the past that make her different from her friends. But watching the Tianenmen massacre on television prompts her to explore her Chinese ancestry and she begins to unlock the truth about what really happened to her almost twenty years before. Told in part through the voices of her ancestors, this is a moving portrait of a family tree struggling to branch through cultural, geographical and political divides.

 

 

There are 240 pages in this book. This book was published in 2004 by Faber & Faber .

Ting-xing Ye was born in Shanghai and moved to Toronto in 1987. The author of the best-selling memoir "A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, " she also writes young adult fiction and non-fiction. She lives north of Toronto.