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Feb 07, 2012 | ISBN 9780307950390 Buy
Aug 20, 2014 | ISBN 9781101910085 Buy
Mar 01, 2011 | 1086 Minutes Buy
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Feb 07, 2012 | ISBN 9780307950390
Aug 20, 2014 | ISBN 9781101910085
Mar 01, 2011 | ISBN 9780307943927
1086 Minutes
In 1867, Lisa See’s great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her family’s antiques store in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. With these stories and her own years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey of her Chinese-American family, a history that encompasses racism, romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world.
Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles’s Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.
Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of China Dolls, Dreams of Joy, Shanghai Girls, Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the… More about Lisa See
“Lovingly rendered. . . . A vivid tableau of a family and an era.” –People“Terrific stuff. . . . The See family’s adventures would be incredible if On Gold Mountain were fiction.” –The New York Times Book Review“Weaves together fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life. . . . Enviably entertaining.” –Amy Tan“Astonishing. . . . as engagingly readable as any novel. . . . comprehensive and exhaustively researched.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review
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