Message from an unknown Chinese mother

I have this book in the large stack beside my bed:

Now a stunningly candid new book, Message From an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, illuminates the unexplored side of that equation: the plight of Chinese women who give their daughters up for adoption. And that arithmetic is far more complex and brutal, the journalist Xinran writes: “a black hole in the woman’s heart and unanswered questions in her daughter’s.”

It’s generally about adoption of girls, not abortion, due to pressure to have boys in Chinese culture. But I wonder whether the hole in a woman’s heart is any less after an abortion.

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