Through their recent work, Shelley Wood and Kit Ying Chan explore how one’s childhood impacts forming their adult life, relationships, and life experience based on the themes on birth, adoption and survival. Wood’s bestselling debut novel, The Quintland Sisters, is an impeccably researched work of epistolary fiction which unravels the tragic mystery of the Dionne Quintuplets, the world’s first surviving set of quintuplets, whose fame and celebrity status came at a steep cost. Hidden Treasures is Chan’s memoir of her time in Nanning, China, at the height of the infant abandonment crisis in the 1990s that resulted from the country’s one child policy. It documents her journey, from the first baby she nursed back to health to establishing a home for abandoned babies. This session will be moderated by Erica Lyons.