Unbound Feet - Orendor, Kim
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There is no way that the thirteen-year-old wallflower me could have conceived of a day when I would dance-voluntarily-in the halftime show of the Chinese University Basketball Association championship that was broadcast to millions of people. But I did. While teaching at an international university in Henan Province, I took time to re-examine all aspects of my life: relationships, faith, and expectations. The journey wasn't always smooth and sometimes I felt as if I was moving backward, but I was better and stronger for the experience. When I left China in 2011, I was ready to restart my life…mehr

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There is no way that the thirteen-year-old wallflower me could have conceived of a day when I would dance-voluntarily-in the halftime show of the Chinese University Basketball Association championship that was broadcast to millions of people. But I did. While teaching at an international university in Henan Province, I took time to re-examine all aspects of my life: relationships, faith, and expectations. The journey wasn't always smooth and sometimes I felt as if I was moving backward, but I was better and stronger for the experience. When I left China in 2011, I was ready to restart my life in the United States. However, I wasn't ready to give up the lessons I'd learned or the freedom I'd attained while living there. While I haven't danced as much since returning stateside, every now and then the spirit moves me, and this former wallflower busts a move.
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Kim Orendor was adopted at two-and-a-half months old and grew up in Southern California, riding bicycles, skateboards, and motorcycles. She grew up knowing she was adopted. It was a very different story than some of her friends, who didn't find out until later in life that they were adopted, and it upended their worlds.She often wondered what her life would have been like if she had learned about her adoption from someone other than her parents. How would she react? How would she feel? That curiosity coupled with her love of storytelling led to the book you now hold in your hands.Before writing books-this is her second-Kim honed her writing craft as a sports reporter. She's clocked more than twenty years of experience between The Sacramento Bee and The Davis Enterprise. At The Enterprise, she won state and national writing awards and was the sports editor in charge of multiple state and national award-winning sections.Kim's career path took a dramatic turn in 2006 when she began a five-year teaching stint at Sias International University in China's Henan Province. The administration took advantage of her experience, and she taught newspaper and reading classes. She was later thrilled to get to teach American Culture Through Film, where she learned the universal secrets behind storytelling. This led to her first book, a memoir Unbound Feet: Finding Freedom in Communist China, also with W. Brand Publishing.Kim returned to the Sacramento area in 2018 to be a caretaker for her parents. Her dad, a Navy veteran, was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease. Sadly, he passed in 2022, but not before Kim was able to finish this novel and read it aloud to him and her mom. Kim continues to live in Northern California with her mom.