![]() ![]() ![]() She’s sympathetic, even when she’s making decisions that show her blindness to Daniel’s particular pain. It tells the story of Kay, and about how she wanted to adopt a child and about how she felt about Deming/Daniel. Or, to be more accurate, his mothers’ perspectives. The second half of the book is from Deming’s mother’s perspective. I also kind of hated him for being such a screw up and disappointing those who cared about him. ![]() I kind of understood, because it has to suck to be abandoned by your mother. He’s underemployed and nearly broke, living in New York with a band that may or may not take off and a mountain of hidden gambling debts. He’s dropped out of college and is dropping the ball on their carefully-finagled second chance. Despite having affluent adoptive parents, he is unwilling or unable to attain their version of success. The first part of the book is all in Deming/Daniel’s point of view. Then she abandons him again when he is 11, an act that Deming (who is adopted and renamed Daniel) doesn’t comprehend. and sends him to be cared for by her father in China, having him return when Deming is nearly five years old. Polly has Deming out of wedlock in the U.S. What if your only parent abandoned you? What if you lost your beloved child? It concerns Deming and Polly Guo, sometime residents of China and New York and about their identity as immigrants or as rural Chinese. ![]() This was a book club selection about a story that encompasses what for many of us would be the ultimate nightmare. ![]()
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