Title: Throwaway daughter
Description: Abandoned on the steps of a Chinese orphanage and then adopted by a Canadian family, Grace Parker shows no interest in her Chinese ancestry until she begins a personal quest, studying Mandarin and eventually going to China to search for her birth parents.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Adoption, Sex role, Identity, Chinese Canadians
Places: Canada, China, Chinese Canadians
Time periods: 1945-, 1976-2002