This book tells the personal story of the authors experience in adopting a child from China. During this process, and in the years after, she found herself becoming increasingly aware of how there were so many baby girls in China that were available for adoption. China adopted out almost 80,000 children between the years 1999-2016, and about 80% of those adoptions were girls. A lot of the girls were placed for adoption, because China had a one child policy, and many families wanted to have a son. (I would take my daughters over a son any day of the week, but whatever.) Many of those adopted out were less than three years old, so they essentially grew up without the cultural identity that they would have if they would have been raised by their biological families, and that is sad to think about. Another reason that so many people adopted from China is that they charges less for adoption than any other country, especially the United States. This book does mention that people adopted from China because they were perpetuating the stereotype that Asian children are quieter, smarter, and more obedient than other children. I did like that this book included comments from some of the girls who were actually adopted from China, because it is important to hear their thoughts since they are the ones that lived this life too. This was a really interesting and eye opening book, as it was a subject I knew essentially nothing about prior to reading.