Join Reference Librarian Sam Lee for a discussion of The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies
Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes Asian Americans, and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—over a century history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood.
288 pages
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