Joy Ling Hill

The Journey of Kei Chui Oi Joy Ling Hill

This is gripping emotional and extensive true experiences of a young orphan Kei Chui Oi who grew up in a small town located in the northern parts of the New Territories, Hong Kong, in Fanling Babies Home. As one of many abandoned orphans, she was raised by missionaries who were instrumental in ensuring orphans were cared for before being adopted by good Christian homes locally and abroad. Chui Oi encountered a long struggle with feelings of abandonment as she learned to deal with her new American family. Unusual circumstances along the way made life more of a challenge, especially adjusting to an overseas boarding school at an early age. In her memoirs, Joy shares her tumultuous life as an adopted child-trying to be an obedient minister's daughter and desperately dodging her mother's wrath. When her mother suddenly became ill, Joy was sent back to Hong Kong to live with a missionary aunt who enrolled her in a boarding school. Feelings of being abandoned haunted her journey throughout her teenager years. In the end, she realized the terrible haunting memories got more elusive as she soldiered into her young adulthood.