β Scribed by Karen Joy Fowler
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Paperback, 320 pages
Published 1991
Masterworks of Science Fiction
Introduction by: Graham Sleight (2012)
1873: Into a Chinese laborer's camp in the unsettled Northwest Pacific wanders a strange white woman dressed in black, speaking a garbled but ecstatic language. When a young Cantonese boy is chosen to escort her back to whatever unknown place she came from, they both embark on what proves to be an extraordinary odyssey.
When black cloaked Sarah Canary wanders into a Chinese labor camp in the Washington territories in 1873, Chin Ah Kin is ordered by his uncle to escort "the ugliest woman he could imagine" away. Far away. But Chin soon becomes the follower.
In the first of many such instances, they are separated, both resurfacing some days later at an insane asylum. Chin has run afoul of the law and Sarah has been committed for observation. Their escape from the asylum in the company of another inmate sets into motion a series of adventures and misadventures that are at once hilarious, deeply moving, and downright terrifying.
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