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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins by Barbara Demick #literature The Arctic stands at theIn 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had been that China's brutal one child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the care of adopted parents. What they didn't know and what award