Book description
In 1994 Emily Prager adopted a 7-month-old baby in China. Almost five
years later, she goes back with LuLu, now a little American girl, to
spend three months in Wuhu, the town where her daughter was born in
Anhui Province, Southern China, searching for clues to unlock the
mystery of LuLu.
Within a week of their arrival, NATO has bombed the Chinese embassy
in Belgrade, and anti-American feeling is running high; Emily's is the
only non-Chinese face on the streets but Lulu, as a native of the
town, is sacrosanct. Mother, daughter and townspeople become involved
in a relationship of warmth and complexity that stands politics and
prejudice on its head. It is Lulu's joy and pride at having found them
that people cannot get over. After all, this is the same town that
threw her away.
Emily Prager spent 4 years of her own childhood in Taiwan. The author
of much praised novels, stories and essays collections, including
A
Visit from the Footbinder
,
In the Missionary Position
and
Roger Fishbite
.
