“In China there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. Who is at the end of your red thread?” 
Ann Hood writes a moving novel of fate and the red thread that binds her characters’ lives. After losing her infant daughter in a freak accident, Maya Lange opens The Red Thread, an adoption agency that specializes in placing baby girls from China with American families. The story follows several families as they attempt to adopt daughters from China. The clients have their own share of heartbreak—miscarriages and infertility—and, predictably, the expectations and reservations about parenthood. The stories of the adopting parents are intertwined with those of the Chinese women who, for various reasons, had to give up their baby girls. The tone here is somber, but in the end these parents are transformed by the healing journeys they have made (provided you can keep them all straight). The tale ends with a pleasing sense that the red thread is more than a myth, especially in Maya’s case.
