On Gold Mountain
The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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On Gold Mountain
Narrated by:
Kate Reading
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Narrated by:
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Kate Reading
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Written by:
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Lisa See
"As engagingly readable as any novel." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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.
See’s family history encompasses secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, romance, racism, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world in this “lovingly rendered…vivid tableau of a family and an era” (People).
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What the critics say
"Astonishing ... A comprehensive and exhaustively researched account of a Chinese-American family ... that juggles such explosive elements as race, class, tradition, prejudice, poverty, and great wealth in new and relatively unexpected combinations." —The Los Angeles Times
“Terrific stuff…. The See family’s adventures would be incredible if On Gold Mountain were fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Terrific stuff…. The See family’s adventures would be incredible if On Gold Mountain were fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review
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