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The Fortunes

✍ Scribed by Davies, Peter Ho

Book ID: 108959865
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780544263703

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✦ Synopsis

From the best-selling, acclaimed author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel recasting American history through the lives of Chinese Americans.
Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, Tell It Slant reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese Americans has seen family bonds denied, fragmented, or imperiled. Tell It Slant uses this history--from the bachelor society of the gold rush era to laws against interracial marriage to the recent wave of adopted baby girls--to create a portrait of a community whose line of descent is broken, yet which has tenaciously persisted, as much through love as by blood.

Through four lives--a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor, Hollywood's first Chinese movie star, a victim of a...

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