307 pages
English language
Published Dec. 30, 2017
Jamie Ford: Love and other consolation prizes (2017)
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8041-7675-0
- OCLC Number:
- 966946007
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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
- Families
- Raffles
- Brothels
- Chinese Americans
- Orphans
- Friendship
- Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.)
- Fiction