"Girl, Adopted is a contemporary coming-of-age story which follows Weynsht, an irrepressible, 13-year-old Ethiopian girl, from an orphanage to an adoptive American family. Weynsht's story offers a rare, child's-eye-view of being adopted across race and culture and growing up as a minority-of-one. It doesn't take a pro - or anti- adoption stance, but acknowledges the complexity inherent in the increasingly common practice, and gives voice to the experience...

"De Blecourt's riveting first-person account of her battle to free her adopted son from a corrupt regime reveals the abiding power of God's protective care"--Provided by the publisher.

Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.