On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by Lisa See
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Author: Lisa SeeEdition: Paperback
Published: 1996-08-27
ISBN: 0679768521
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: What a great family history written as a novel
Summary: 4 Stars
I enjoyed this book very much. Amazing to read about one man's dreams and hard work from 4 generations ago still leaves a legacy and a still-running store to this day. I was broken-hearted reading about the treatment of the Chinese during the railroad building era of the West. Bigotry and racism are not new to America, and not limited to just Africans. I got confused sometimes with all the names, and had to refer to the family tree in the beginning of the book, but it was a wonderful story.
Summary of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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.Chinese Books
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