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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

ISBN: 0679768521

Title: On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

Author: Lisa See

KDL Description:

Documenting the history of her own Chinese-American family, a journalist shares the results of five years of research, including interviews with nearly one hundred Chinese and Caucasian relatives.

Amazon Description:

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.