352 pages
English language
Published Dec. 30, 2017 by Allison & Busby, Limited.
Love and Other Consolation Prizes
by Jamie Ford
Jamie Ford: Love and Other Consolation Prizes (2017, Allison & Busby, Limited)
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- 978-0-7490-2280-8
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A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.
Subjects
- Fiction, historical
- Fiction, coming of age
- Fiction, family life
- Seattle (wash.), fiction
- Chinese americans, fiction