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Leslie Tai | How to Have an American Baby

There is a city in Southern California that is teeming with pregnant women from China. Told through multiple perspectives, How to Have an American Baby is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese birth tourists who travel to the U.S. on "birthing vacations," in order to obtain U.S. citizenship for their babies—chronicling the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in the web of its influence.