Mei-Ling Hopgood was adopted by an American couple when she was a baby. She never made any attempt to contact her birth family, but twenty years later, they contacted her. She talks with Andrea Kahn about her new memoir, Lucky Girl.

Lucky Girl is Mei-Ling Hopgood’s memoir about traveling to Taiwan to meet the birth family she’d never known. Hopgood grew up thinking she had escaped a life of poverty when she was adopted by Americans, but in Taiwan, she learned that her birth family defied all of her assumptions. This week, she spoke with Andrea [...]