6, 2016 3 Peter Ho Davies ’ debut novel, The Welsh Girl, was a quiet, deep gem that explored the lives of three characters in Wales. “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience. ‘The Fortunes,’ by Peter Ho Davies Tess Taylor Oct.

“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. Hate for Japanese people leads to Vincents death. Anna works in the fantasy world of movies. Ling emigrates and finds work on the railroads. filled with quiet resonances across time.”- The New Yorker by Peter Ho Davies read by David Hartley-Margolin Four stories trace the experience of Chinese and Chinese Americans through American history. Please see Wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. 'Riveting and luminous.Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.'-Jesmyn Ward Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awardfor literature that confronts racism and examines diversityWinner of the 2017 Chautauqua PrizeFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA New York Times Notable Book 'Riveting and luminous. 2016, The fortunes / Peter Ho Davies Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Boston New York. For literature that confronts racism and examines diversityįinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies