Wuhu Diary.
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on Wuhu Diary by Emily Prager.
In 1994 Emily Prager adopted a 7-month-old baby in China. Almost five years later, she goes back with LuLu, now a little American girl, to spend three months in Wuhu, the town where her daughter was born in Anhui Province, Southern China, searching for clues to unlock the mystery of LuLu.
Within a week of their arrival, NATO has bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and Anti-American feeling is running high; Emily's is the only non-Chinese face on the streets but LuLu, as a native of the town, is sacrosanct. Mother, Daughter and townspeople become involved in a relationship of warmth and complexity that stands politics and prejudice on its head. It is LuLu's joy and pride at having found them that people cannot get over. After all this is the same town that threw her away.
Wuhu Diary Goodreads page.
Wuhu Diary was first published on January 1st 2001 by Vintage with later editions being published at various times in later years. I'm not entirely sure where I stumbled across this book but it was an impulsive buy, one I'm grateful I did. This book both informed me of an adoptive parents love for their adopted child and how life was in china at the time (1999), It hit me right in the feels. I highly recommend the book to any and all readers and give the book a 9/10.
Emily Prager, born on April 21st 1948 grew up in both Texas and Taiwan before living in Greenwich Village, New York. Prager went to Brearley School, Bernard College where she gained a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics. Prager spent part of her time acting, spending four years as a regular on the TV soap opera The Edge of Night. Prager later became a contributing editor of The National Lampoon and performer on 'The National Lampoon Radio Hour'. In 1981 Prager was both writer and performer in Saturday night live although she was uncredited for most of her performances.
Prager started writing full time and her works apart from Wuhu Diary, include In the Missionary position, A Visit from the Foot-binder and other stories, Eve's tattoo, Clea and Zeus Divorce and Roger Frostbite. Prager also became a columnist for The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph, Penthouse and The Guardian. For a time Prager taught at the Shanghai American School in Pudong Campus in shanghai, China.
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