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Is He My Son
A trafficked Chinese-Canadian child, discovered and lost again
by Lin Chang and translated by Bruce Humes
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A traffic accident exposes a baby abduction from twenty years ago in China.
Because of the accident, Lucy and Wei find out that their beloved twenty-year-old son, An’an, is not their biological child.
But who is An’an and where are his biological parents? How did he become a family member?
And what happened to their “real” son who Lucy delivered at a Canadian hospital?
Lucy goes back to China, to the hometown of the nanny who had taken care of her son, only to find out the nanny died years ago.
Now
there are thousands of questions Lucy needs answers too, but by far the
hardest one is whether the close and loving family Lucy and Wei worked
so hard to build can ever feel like a “real” family again.
“If you liked the movie Parasite give this book a try,” said a reviewer on NetGalley.
A Word from the Author
Child trafficking has a long history in China. Sad, heartbroken stories appear in the media from time to time. Some parents would spend their whole life on the road looking for their children. Some lucky families managed to find their adult child, but the strangeness, the barriers between the recovered child and the rest of the family not only fail to cure but in many cases extend the pain of losing the child in the parents’ hearts, making it last forever. What I want to tell people is that child trafficking cannot have a happy ending – reunited family live happily ever after.
I have a grandson, only two years old. He is very smart and cute, everyone loves him very much. I really dare not think what would happen if he were stolen one day …
(Lin Chang, March 2020)