Reconnecting Memoir Takes Realistic Look at Joy, Pain of Adopted Woman's Discoveries

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Lucky Girl. By Mei-Ling Hopgood. Algonquin Books. 244 pages. $23.95.

Mei-Ling Hopgood celebrated Chinese New Year 1998 in the Taiwan home of her Chinese birthparents, with her white American adoptive parents, her Korean brothers, her younger sister's Swiss mother, and her flock of Chinese sisters and their husbands, boyfriends and children.

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Reconnecting Memoir Takes Realistic Look at Joy, Pain of Adopted Woman's Discoveries

Amid the shrieking, multilingual cacophony, awareness struck her:

"My God, I thought. Everyone, every person, every movement -- all the chaos in this room is ...

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