Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

"In 2009, journalist Barbara Demick published a bombshell article on the confluence of the Chinese Communist Party’s one-child policy and international adoption. Her reporting revealed that workers from the State Family Planning Commission kidnapped “excess” babies and toddlers from extremely poor families, transformed them into paper orphans and placed them for adoption to reap profits and satisfy Western demand. In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Demick expands on her reporting, unraveling how this scheme impacted the lives of twin girls, one who grew up with her Chinese family in a remote village and the other wrenched away and adopted by a couple in Texas. Their stories lay bare the all-too-human costs of social engineering, family separation and corruption in the adoption industry."