Historical Fiction"Īsian/Pacific American Award for Literature-Honor Selection One of BookRiot's "100 Must-Read Books of U.S. "The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience."-Celeste Ng "A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty."-Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation Inhabiting four lives-a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor Hollywood's first Chinese movie star a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption-this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive-as much through love as blood. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
filled with quiet resonances across time."- The New Yorker "Riveting and luminous.Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end."-Jesmyn Ward Description Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awardįor literature that confronts racism and examines diversityįinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize
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