Journalist Barbara Demick Follows A Case Of Twin Separation in 'Daughters of the Bamboo Grove'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 7, 2025

As Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, journalist Barbara Demick reported on the politics and impact of China's 'one-child' policy. Demick has written a new book that follows the story of how the policy affected one family, and a set of twins forcefully separated and put into the adoption system. Demick discusses her book, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins. Plus, listeners share their experience navigating the international adoption system.

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