The Red Thread

Wow. I was very disappointed with this book. I worry that people who read this book who may be considering adoption themselves will come away with the wrong idea, especially since it seems the author herself lost a child and then adopted from China. As one who has studied international adoption and......more

The Red Thread in Ann Hood's novel title refers to a Chinese saying that an invisible red thread links people who are destined to be connected. The novel is about a group of American couples who hope to adopt a Chinese child, as well as the stories of how those children came to be relinquished by th......more

The real poignancy in this novel for me was the stories of the Chinese women who had to give up their baby girls because of the barbaric "one child policy" impossed on approximately one-third of the population. How utterly heartbreaking. Yet in this novel we rejoice with couples longing for a child......more

Although I hoped to enjoy the story line of this book, I ended up being very disappointed. I work in the adoption field and fear that readers get a very wrong idea about what it's like to pursue an international adoption. The points I would like to make about this book are: ~ families are never perfe......more

I am so grateful to have found BT. My reading experiences this year have been incredible and it's largely thanks to the thoughtful reviews I've been exposed to and the challenges we've been set. Ann Hood was our author read for the month of June was one I otherwise may never have discovered but she......more