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Last night my husband and I had some time in the evening, so we watched Somewhere Between, a documentary about teenagers adopted from China that he had downloaded some time before. I have known of this documentary for months—and had always planned to see it—but I just wasn’t in a real hurry. I think it was the title. Both the words “Somewhere” and “Between” communicate ambiguity, nebulousness,...
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Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
— published 2012 — 3 editions |
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Saving Grandmother's Face: And Other Tales from Christian Teachers in China
— published 2010 |
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A friend and colleague on GoodReads recommended I read this during my upcoming educational trip to China. It was a perfect suggestion! I had a non-work related book to read and enjoy and the book helped me understand certain things common to Chine...
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I picked up this up from the travel/foreign history section on a whim, after loving my last choice from there ("In My Father's Country" by Saima Wahab). The book turned out to be a personal family memoir, with snippets of Chinese language, culture...
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I really enjoyed this thoughtful, interesting memoir of an American family's life in China following the adoption of one of their daughters, Grace. I have a personal interest in China - my brother lived & taught there, I have a native Chinese...
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The Arrington family has three small children, one of whom is a Chinese adopted girl named Grace. Once the author's husband retires from military service, he tells his wife, "follow your dream" and her dream is to live and teach in China, based on...
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“Relationships
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
---Ancient Chinese proverb”
― Aminta Arrington, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but it will never break.
---Ancient Chinese proverb”
― Aminta Arrington, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
“I later asked Mr. Jia about the characters for Christmas. He told me they meant 'holy...birth...festival'---Holy Birthday. So while my students may have never heard the Christmas story, their language still recognized its basic significance, all in just three characters. And those three characters expressed the essential meaning far more succinctly than the Latin-based expressions for Christmas I was familiar with.”
― Aminta Arrington
― Aminta Arrington
“I picked up the phone, 'Hello?'
'Merry Christmas!' said Mom and Dad.
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'I love you too' I replied. I hung up the phone. My students were gaping at me. Two girls in the back row brushed away tears and hugged each other. Parents and children rarely said those three words in China. They knew their parents loved them, but they knew from their actions, not because they had ever been told. The students had studied and heard about the importance of family at Christmas, but with that telephone call they saw it for themselves.”
― Aminta Arrington, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
'Merry Christmas!' said Mom and Dad.
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'I love you too' I replied. I hung up the phone. My students were gaping at me. Two girls in the back row brushed away tears and hugged each other. Parents and children rarely said those three words in China. They knew their parents loved them, but they knew from their actions, not because they had ever been told. The students had studied and heard about the importance of family at Christmas, but with that telephone call they saw it for themselves.”
― Aminta Arrington, Home is a Roof Over a Pig: An American Family's Journey in China
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