About the Book: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid
detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years
later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they
thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had been that Chinas brutal
one-child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the
care of adopted parents. What they didnt know-and what award-winning journalist
Barbara Demick uncovered in 2007, while working as a correspondent in
Beijing-what that her daughter had been snatched from her beloved family