Barbara Demick: Separation and Reunion in China

Barbara Demick’s international reporting has won the Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, plus nominations for a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Today, she joins us with Daughters of the Bamboo Grove which tells the heartrending story of identical twins – from the forced adoption of one of the girls to their reunion – and opens out to encompass an investigation into China’s infamous former one-child policy.

Categories: Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Society

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