Wuhu Diary On Taking My Adopted Daughter Back to Her Hometown in China

In 1994 an American writer named Emily Prager met her new daughter LuLu. All she knew about her was that the baby had been born in Wuhu, a city in southern China, and left near a police station in her first three days of life. Her birth mother had left a note with Lulu's western and lunar birth dates. In 1999 Emily and her daughternow a happy, fearless four-year-old--returned to China to find out more. That journey and its discoveries unfold in this lovely, touching and sensitively observed book. InWuhu Diary,we follow Emily and LuLu through a country where children are doted on yet often summarily abandoned and where immense human friendliness can coexist with outbursts of state-orchestrated hostilityparticularly after the U. S. accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. We see Emily unearthing precious details of her child's past and LuLu coming to terms with who she is. The result is a book that will delight anyone interested in China, and that will move and instruct anyone who has ever adopted--or considered adopting--a child. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Emily Prager is the author of three novels, <i>Clea & Zeus Divorce, Eve's Tattoo,</i><b> </b>and the recently published<b> </b><i>Roger Fishbite</i>, as well as the acclaimed book of short stories <i>A Visit from the Footbinder</i>, and a compendium of her humorous writings,<i> In the Missionary Positions</i>. She has been a satirical columnist for <i>The Village Voice, The New York Observer</i>, and <i>The New York Times</i>, as well as London's <i>Daily Telegraph </i>and<i> The Guardian</i>. She is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library, and in 2000 she won the first Online Journalism Award for Commentary given by the Columbia University Graduate School of Jounalism. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Sweden, Lithuania, and Israel