Nancy Mccabe: 3 books
Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge
A Journey to My Daughter's Birthplace in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Even before Nancy McCabe and her daughter, Sophie, left for China, it was clear that, as the mother of an adopted child from China, McCabe would be seeing the country as a tourist while her daughter, who was seeing the place for the first time in her memory, was “going home.” Part travelogue,...
From Little Houses to Little Women
Revisiting a Literary Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A typical travel book takes readers along on a trip with the author, but a great travel book does much more than that, inviting readers along on a mental and spiritual journey as well. This distinction is what separates Nancy McCabe’s From Little Houses to Little Women from the typical and allows...
Meeting Sophie
A Memoir of Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2003
The baby is screaming again. My baby. I hoist her off the narrow hotel bed--again--and try to cradle her as I rock my torso back and forth in an uncomfortable straight-backed chair.
This baby does not cradle. She doesn't know how to cuddle, to be soothed in anyone's arms. She howls and arches...