Growing up in Ontario in the 1990s, Grace Parker struggles with her Chinese heritage. Adopted as a baby by a Canadian family, she is resentful towards her biological mother, whom she never knew, for abandoning her at an orphanage. As she becomes a young adult, Grace feels the need to learn about her past, so she decides to travel to China in an attempt to find her birth parents.
Throwaway Daughter deal both with the personal challenges of identity as well as gender discrimination and the practice of abandoning, or in come cases, murdering baby girls that can occur in societies where women are considered inferior to men.
review submitted by a Library Peer Tutor, grade 11
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