About the Book: In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick uncovers the harrowing story of Chinese twin sisters separated at birth under China’s one-child policy. One was adopted by an American couple believing she had been abandoned; the other remained in China. Demick reveals a disturbing truth: many children were forcibly taken from poor families to meet international adoption demand. This powerful narrative follows the twins’ diverging lives and their eventual reunion, while exploring the ethical, emotional, and political consequences of forced separation, adoption, and cultural assumptions about East and West.