Throwaway Daughter (YA) - Ting-Xing Ye

Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, a typical Canadian teenager until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on television. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, strictly enforced by the Communist government. But Grace was one of the lucky ones, adopted as a baby by a loving Canadian couple.

With the encouragement of her adoptive parents, she studies Chinese and travels back to China in search of her birth mother. Told in part through the voices of Grace's ancestors, this is a gripping portrait of a family tree branching through cultural and political divides, and of a girl coming to terms with her own roots.

A used pb in good condition.