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On Gold Mountain By: Lisa See

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RosettaBooks, October 2009

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When she was a girl Lisa See spent summers in the cool dark recesses of her family's antiques store in Los Angeles Chinatown. There her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing colorful stories about their family's past- stories of missionaries concubines tong wars glamorous nightclubs and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. They spoke of how Lisa's great-great-grandfather emigrated from his Chinese village to the United States to work on the building of the transcontinental railroad as an herbalist; how his son followed him married a Caucasian woman and despite great odds went on to become one of the most prominent Chinese on "Gold Mountain" (the Chinese name for the United States). As an adult See spent five years collecting the details of her family's remarkable history. She interviewed nearly one hundred relatives- both Chinese and Caucasian rich and poor- and pored over documents at the National Archives and several historical societies and searched in countless attics basements and closets for the intimate nuances of her ancestors' lives. The result is a vivid sweeping family portrait in the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots that is at once particular and universal telling the story not only of one family but of the Chinese people in America itself a country that both welcomes and reviles immigrants like no other culture in the world. On Gold Mountain was a national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book.

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Imprint: RosettaBooks
ISBN: 9780795304965
Language:  English
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