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China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood

by Jeff Gammage

Morrow/HarperCollins

June 2007, 255 pages, $25.95

by Huntly Collins

The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

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Gammage's beautifully written memoir, which weaves together emotionally wrenching narrative with insightful social commentary, will resonate with any American who has taken the same journey.

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