Author : Lisa See
Release : 2012-02-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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On Gold Mountain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Gold Mountain write by Lisa See. This book was released on 2012-02-07. On Gold Mountain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather arrived in America, where he prescribed herbal remedies to immigrant laborers who were treated little better than slaves. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Lisa herself grew up playing in her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown, listening to stories of missionaries and prostitutes, movie stars and Chinese baseball teams. With these stories and her own years of research, Lisa See chronicles the one-hundred-year-odyssey of her Chinese-American family, a history that encompasses racism, romance, secret marriages, entrepreneurial genius, and much more, as two distinctly different cultures meet in a new world.