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Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China (Volume 1) by Nancy Maccabe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China (Volume 1) about?

Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was "going home." Part travelogue, part memoir, "Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge" immerses readers in an absorbing and intimate exploration of place and its influence on the meaning of family. A sequel to "Meeting Sophie," which tells McCabe's story of adopting Sophie as a single woman, "Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge" picks up a decade later with a much different Sophie--a ten-year-old with braces who wears black nail polish, sneaks eyeliner, wears clothing decorated with skulls, and has mixed feelings about being one of the few non-white children in the little Pennsylvania town where they live. Since she was young, Sophie had felt a closeness to the country of her birth and held it in an idealized light. At ten, she began referring to herself as Asian instead of Asian-American. It was McCabe's hope that visiting China would "help her become comfortable with both sides of the hyphen, figure out how to be both Chinese and Amer

Who reads Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China (Volume 1)?

Author

Nancy Maccabe

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826219428

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences