This newly updated third edition tells a story of love and devotion during the winter of 1948. Pearl Buck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth and other books about East Asia, was contacted by a New York adoption agency desperately searching for a home for an unwanted dark-skinned East Indian-American child. During the next four years, nine more children were sponsored by Pearl and raised by the Lloyd and Viola Yoder family at Welcome House in Bucks Co., Pa. (200pp. illus. Author, 2019 reprint.)