Wish you Happy Forever: What China's Orphans Taught Me About Moving Mountains

In this moving memoir, Brown, founder of Half the Sky Foundation, details her journey toward the establishment of nurturing conditions within China's bleak state run orphanages. After reading a 1996 newspaper article detailing the miserable conditions prevailing in Chinese orphanages, Bowen and her husband made a life-changing decision. "So we set out on our adoption journey not to build a family%E2%80%94we had raised two lovely children, the nest was empty%E2%80%94but to save one life. That was how we saw it then." Following the adoption of a Chinese baby girl, soon followed by a second adoption, Bowenwas spurred to especially help female infants and those with special needs. Bowen chronicles the political, cultural, social and administrative obstacles encountered throughout the process of establishing her foundation. The couple, with their two daughters in tow, eventually moves to Beijing, hoping to raise awareness regarding the foundation's work. Bowen's remarkable narrative illustrates how dedication, compassion and love can create enormous change against incredible odds. (Mar.)