This is an Online Internet Book Club on China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood by Jeff Gammage. Discuss this book, share your thoughts, make comments, ask questions, offer responses...
Description
Aching to expand from a couple to a family, Jeff Gammage—a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer—and his wife, Christine, embarked upon a journey that would carry them across a shifting landscape of emotion and through miles of red tape and bureaucratic protocol. On the other side of the world—in the smog-choked city of Changsha in Hunan Province—a silent, stoic little girl was waiting for them: Jin Yu, their new daughter. Now they would have to learn how to fully embrace a life altered beyond recognition by new concerns and responsibilities—and by a love unlike any they'd ever felt before.
Alive with insight and feeling, China Ghosts is an eye-opening depiction of the foreign adoption process and a remarkable glimpse into a different culture. Most important, it is a poignant, heartfelt, and intensely intimate chronicle of the making of a family.
Book Club Questions for China Ghosts (Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood (Fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on China Ghosts:
- Did Jeff Gammage emphasize any specific themes throughout China Ghosts? What do you think Jeff Gammage is trying to explain with this theme?
- What was unique about the setting of China Ghosts and how did it affect the storyline?
- Could you relate to any of the characters? If so, which ones and why?
- How do characters change or learn throughout China Ghosts? What events caused these changes? Have you or someone you know experienced the same thing?
- How does China Ghosts reveal Jeff Gammage's own perspectives about people and the world? For a lively discussion, describe why you think Jeff Gammage is liberal or conservative.
- Did certain parts of China Ghosts affect you emotionally? Why did it evoke those emotions?
- Did Jeff Gammage's point of view on things lend new perspective to your own view of the world?
Book Club Questions for China Ghosts (for Non-Fiction)
Suggested Book Club Questions for China Ghosts: My Daughter's Journey to America, My Passage to Fatherhood (Non-fiction)
The following book club questions provide a starting point for creating a reading group discussion on China Ghosts:
- Did Jeff Gammage make persuasive arguments in China Ghosts? Did China Ghosts change or reinforce your opinion on the subject?
- What did you learn from China Ghosts?
- How does Jeff Gammage present the information and did you enjoy it?
- How is Jeff Gammage biased within China Ghosts? Is there a political slant to what is being discussed and how does it impact the book?
- What, if anything, does China Ghosts make you want to read next? Why?
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