| Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage Contributor(s): Bratt, Kay (Author) |
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ISBN: 0982555008 ISBN-13: 9780982555002 Publisher: Amazon Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2010282212 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.26" W x 9.04" (0.82 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epidemic of abandoned infants. As a volunteer at a local orphanage, Bratt witnessed conditions that were unfathomable to a middle-class mother of two from South Carolina. Based on Bratt's diary of her four years at the orphanage, Silent Tears offers a searing account of young lives rendered disposable. In the face of an implacable system, Bratt found ways to work within (and around) the rules to make a better future for the children, whom she came to love. The book offers no easy answers. While often painful in its clear-sightedness, Silent Tears balances the sadness and struggles of life in the orphanage with moments of joy, optimism, faith, and victory. It is the story of hundreds of children -- and of one woman who never planned on becoming a hero but became one anyway. |