An adoptee memoirs - "Lucky GIrl"

 Book: Lucky Girl: a memoir by Mei-Ling Hopgood.

The stereotypical portrait of an adopted Chinese girl include ... she came from a very poor family, being abandoned on the street. It is impossible to locate her birth parents. Later she was fortunate enough adopted by a very nice Western couple. Growing up with adopted parents, she does not want to know the reason why she was adopted, she has a very hard feeling towards her birth parents - those are steretypical description.

That is not what Mei-Ling's story. Mei-Ling was adopted. She was born into a middle-class Taiwan family. She was adopted when she was only eight months old. She never asked why she was given up by her biological parents. She never wonders about her Asian root. In her twenties, her Taiwan biological family suddenly came calling her from long distance - in a language that she does not understand. Not only have her birth parents tried to connect with her, but also her brothers and sisters.

This books is written by a women, who was adopted, telling her feeling about her birth family and her own experience of "living again" with her Taiwan bith family.

This books is well-writenn. The first few pages of this book draws its readers' attention immediately. - highly rfecommended.