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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a true story of abduction, adoption and separated twins
“Excellent…entrancing and disturbing… [Barbara Demick] is one of our finest chroniclers of East Asia. She hammers together strong, solid sentence after strong, solid sentence — until the grandeur of the architecture comes into focus. Demick’s characters are richly drawn, and her stories, often reported over a span of years, deliver a rare emotional wallop.”—The New York Times
“One of the finest nonfiction writers of her generation.”– The Observer

Barbara Demick is author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood and the recently released Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, published by Random House in July 2020. She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer.