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China Doll

In a tale of passion and rescue, an abandoned Chinese infant drives an unwitting pop star to become formidable heroine.

China Doll China Doll
Mecox Hudson
October 2006
Paperback: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 0977382125
ISBN-13: 978-0977382125

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While American music icon Nola Sands is on a goodwill concert tour in China, a baby is thrust into her arms. Nola’s well-orchestrated life is thrown out of orbit as she bonds with the infant against her husband-manager’s plans. She resolves to save the baby from death in the dumping ground of China’s orphanages—only to find herself on a collision course with her record label company’s business interests in the vast new market. Worse, two superpowers, the U.S. and China’s governments, are determined to silence her.

In a stunning story that begins with passion and ends with triumph of an adoptive parent’s unwavering love, Nola’s flight across China is a tale not only of human rights abuses running amok in an astonishingly picturesque land: it is the gripping self-discovery voyage of a woman coming into her own.

China Doll

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CHINA DOLL Nominated for:

★ ForeWord Book of the Year Award!

★ USA Book News Best Book 2006 Award!

★ Benjamin Franklin Award!

"Spicy, worldly, and meticulously researched, this novel rivets our attention on Nola, a celebrity whose life turns upside down as she attempts to save a baby from the dying rooms in China, and journeys through the intriguing complexities of Chinese-American relations, corporate greed, and pop world machinations. To the author’s credit, the exciting twists and turns of the plot make the pages fly by, but it is the steady voice of human wisdom that guides the character development and enlightens the reader all the way through."
–Susan Anderson, Author, The Journey from Abandonment to Healing and The Black Swan | Read more rave reviews

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