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Title Home is a roof over a pig : an American family's journey in China / Aminta Arrington.
Publisher New York : Overlook Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Description 319 pages : map ; 24 cm


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 BW-Adult Collection  951.061 ARRINGT Nearby on shelf  30615004297775 04-14-13  AVAILABLE
 CW-Adult Upper Level Non-Fiction  951.061 ARR Nearby on shelf  30620004345004 09-14-23  AVAILABLE
 IS-Lower Stacks  951.061 ARRINGTON Nearby on shelf  30634002274686 02-03-19  AVAILABLE
 NS-Adult Collection  951.061 ARR  30651002734543 03-30-13  AVAILABLE
 SH-Adult-Mezzanine  951.061 ARR  30652003512375 10-16-12  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-316) .
Summary When all-American Aminta Arrington moves from suburban Georgia to a small town in China, she doesn't go alone. Her army husband and three young children, including an adopted Chinese daughter, uproot themselves too. Aminta hopes to understand the country with its long civilization, ancient philosophy, and complex language. She is also determined that her daughter Grace, born in China, regain some of the culture she lost when the Arringtons brought her to America as a baby.
Subject Arrington, Aminta.
Arrington, Aminta -- Family.
Americans -- China -- Tai'an (Shandong Sheng)
Adopted children.
China -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Tai'an (Shandong Sheng, China) -- Biography.
Genre Autobiographies.
Other title American family's journey in China.
ISBN 9781590208991
1590208994