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Mott Street
- A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
- Narrado por: Ava Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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Resumen del Editor
“Essential reading for understanding not just Chinese American history but American history—and the American present.”—Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
* TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 * San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Nonfiction * Kirkus Best Nonfiction of 2023 * Library Journal Best Memoir and Biography of 2023 * One of Elle's Best Memoirs of 2023 (So Far) * An ALA Notable Book *
“The Angela’s Ashes for Chinese Americans.”—Miwa Messer, Poured Over podcast
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all.
Breaking the silence surrounding her family’s past meant confronting the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882—the first federal law to restrict immigration by race and nationality, barring Chinese immigrants from citizenship for six decades. Chin traces the story of the pioneering family members who emigrated from the Pearl River Delta, crossing an ocean to make their way in the American West of the mid-nineteenth century. She tells of their backbreaking work on the transcontinental railroad and of the brutal racism of frontier towns, then follows their paths to New York City.
In New York’s Chinatown she discovers a single building on Mott Street where so many of her ancestors would live, begin families, and craft new identities. She follows the men and women who became merchants, “paper son” refugees, activists, and heads of the Chinese tong, piecing together how they bore and resisted the weight of the Exclusion laws. She soon realizes that exclusion is not simply a political condition but also a personal one.
Gorgeously written, deeply researched, and tremendously resonant, Mott Street uncovers a legacy of exclusion and resilience that speaks to the American experience, past and present.
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“Chin delights in recalling the lives of her more colorful ancestors . . . But she also writes unflinchingly of the racism and marginalization her family faced after arriving in the American West in the mid-19th century . . . Mott Street is a sensitively told story of survival, resilience, and resistance.”—Shannon Carlin, TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023
“A deeply empathetic and important book, one that renders visible the hidden achievements and sufferings of her family members—and insists that the wounding history of exclusion be seen clearly as well.”—Julia Flynn Siler, Wall Street Journal
“Chin probes the plight of four generations of her ancestors with the tenacity of a historian, the fine brush of an accomplished artist, and the sensitivity of one who openly communicates with the dead . . . guided by curiosity and courage . . . one of the unexpected gifts is that we hear Chin’s voice throughout . . . in her spine-tingling interactions with the spirits of those who have passed . . . magic.”—Megan Vered, Los Angeles Review of Books
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The dramatic real-life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Benny must decide either to escape to Hong Kong or navigate the intricacies of a newly Communist China. Annuo, forced to flee with her father, a defeated Nationalist official, becomes an unwelcome exile in Taiwan. The financially strapped Ho fights deportation from the US in order to continue his studies while his family struggles at home. Bing, given away by her poor parents, faces the prospect of a new life among strangers in America.
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Great book, poor performance
- De Helpful Buyer en 07-02-19
De: Helen Zia
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After the Last Border
- Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
- De: Jessica Goudeau
- Narrado por: Soneela Nankani
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries - yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the 21st-century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas.
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Great Content. Odd Structure.
- De Susan Stillings en 02-10-21
De: Jessica Goudeau
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The Cubans
- Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
- De: Anthony DePalma
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean, Anthony DePalma
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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Cubans today, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, are hesitantly embracing the future. In his new book, Anthony DePalma, a veteran reporter with years of experience in Cuba, focuses on a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans face: a moving snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long.
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The real Cuba
- De Tinkerbell en 10-11-20
De: Anthony DePalma
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The First Man
- De: Albert Camus
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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The Other Madisons
- The Lost History of a President's Black Family
- De: Bettye Kearse
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse - a descendant of a slave named Coreen and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison - finally shares her family story, exploring legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.
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Enlightening
- De D C en 08-24-20
De: Bettye Kearse
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Finding Samuel Lowe
- China, Jamaica, Harlem
- De: Paula Williams Madison
- Narrado por: Paula Williams Madison
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Thanks to her spiteful, jealous Jamaican mother, Nell Vera Lowe was cut off from her Chinese father, Samuel, when she was just a baby, after he announced that he was taking a Chinese bride. By the time Nell was old enough to travel to her father's shop in St. Anne's Bay, he'd taken his family back to China, never learning what became of his eldest daughter. Bereft, Nell left Jamaica for New York to start a new life.
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Fascinating
- De ayodele higgs en 01-27-16
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From Miniskirt to Hijab
- A Girl in Revolutionary Iran
- De: Jacqueline Saper
- Narrado por: Vaneh Assadourian
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At 18 she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community - primarily the disparate religions and cultures.
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Very good
- De Matt en 11-10-21
De: Jacqueline Saper
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
- A New Zealand Story
- De: Christina Thompson
- Narrado por: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.
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a beautiful story
- De Pumpkin99 en 12-24-22
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Reclamation
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
- De: Gayle Jessup White
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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Slow start, eventually a worthwhile story
- De ChocolateDweller en 12-17-21
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American Baby
- A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
- De: Gabrielle Glaser
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur, Gabrielle Glaser, Margaret Katz
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
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The adoption business was founded on secrecy and lies. American Baby lays out how a lucrative and exploitative industry removed children from their birth mothers and placed them with hopeful families, fabricating stories about infants' origins and destinations, then closing the door firmly between the parties forever. Adoption agencies and other organizations that purported to help pregnant women struck unethical deals with doctors and researchers for pseudoscientific "assessments," and shamed millions of women into surrendering their children.
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I felt the love of my birth mom...
- De Mary H. en 02-03-21
De: Gabrielle Glaser
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Inge's War
- A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and Survival Under Hitler
- De: Svenja O'Donnell
- Narrado por: Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 9 h y 22 m
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Growing up in Paris, the daughter of a German mother and an Irish father, Svenja O'Donnell knew little of her family's German past. In this transporting and illuminating audiobook, the award-winning journalist vividly reconstructs the story of her grandmother Inge's life from the rise of the Nazis through the brutal postwar years, from falling in love with a man who was sent to the Eastern Front just after she became pregnant with his child, to spearheading her family's flight as the Red Army closed in, her young daughter in tow.
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Compelling story, superb narrator
- De Someone who knows en 01-16-24
De: Svenja O'Donnell
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- De: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrado por: Natalie Pela
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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Great story with an added benefit
- De Scottsville Stu en 12-30-21
De: Rebecca Frankel
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Eat the Buddha
- Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
- De: Barbara Demick
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy.
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TIBET
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 08-24-21
De: Barbara Demick
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The White Devil's Daughters
- The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
- De: Julia Flynn Siler
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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During the first hundred years of Chinese immigration - from 1848 to 1943 - San Francisco was home to a shockingly extensive underground slave trade in Asian women, who were exploited as prostitutes and indentured servants. In this gripping, necessary book, best-selling author Julia Flynn Siler shines a light on this little-known chapter in our history - and gives us a vivid portrait of the safe house to which enslaved women escaped.
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Well researched
- De Qats reads en 08-05-19
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The acclaimed, award-winning novelist takes us on some of his most memorable journeys in this revelatory collection of travel essays that spans the globe, from the Caribbean to Scotland to the Himalayas. Now in his mid-70s, Russell Banks has indulged his wanderlust for more than half a century. "Since childhood, I've longed for escape, for rejuvenation, for wealth untold, for erotic and narcotic and sybaritic fresh starts, for high romance, mystery, and intrigue," he writes in this compelling anthology.
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The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking that the first person to crack their secret code hid them behind a fake panel in his ancestral home. Anne Lister was a Regency landowner, an intrepid world traveller...and an unabashed lover of other women. In this bold new biography, prizewinning author Angela Steidele uses the diaries to create a portrait of Anne Lister as we've never seen her before: a woman in some ways very much of her time and in others far ahead of it.
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Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life - women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. One Beautiful Dream is the deeply personal, often humorous tale of what happened when one woman dared to believe that you can have it all - if you’re willing to reimagine what having it all looks like. Jennifer Fulwiler is the last person you might expect to be the mother of six young children. First of all, she’s an introvert only child, self-described workaholic, and former atheist who never intended to have a family.
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Short Life in a Strange World
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In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at - in situ - every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the most influential and important artist of Northern Renaissance painting. The result of that pursuit is a remarkable journey through major European cities and across continents. As Ferris takes a keen analytical eye to the paintings, each piece brings new revelations about Bruegel’s art, and gives way to meditations on mortality, fatherhood, and life.
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The Fame Game
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Aspiring artists and creators should listen to this book
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Highly recommended!
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Heralded as the most significant technological innovation since the smartphone, virtual reality is poised to transform our very notions of life and humanity. Though this tech is still in its infancy, to those on the inside, it is the future. VR will change how we work, how we experience entertainment, how we feel pleasure and other emotions, how we see ourselves, and most importantly, how we relate to each other in the real world. And we will never be the same. Peter Rubin, senior culture editor for Wired and the industry's go-to authority on the subject, calls it an "intimacy engine".
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The Good Girls
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An inventive, unique, and extraordinarily moving literary debut that pieces together the fascinating story of one woman's family across 20th-century Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Germany. Katja Petrowskaja wanted to create a kind of family tree, charting relatives who had scattered across multiple countries and continents. Her idea blossomed into this striking and highly original work of narrative nonfiction, an account of her search for meaning within the stories of her ancestors.
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Catullus' Bedspread
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Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome.
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Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada - mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a gripping detective story interwoven with the riveting biography of a complicated, original, and wholly fascinating man.
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Well Written Character Study of an NPS Ranger
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When Joselin Linder was in her 20s, her legs started to swell. She thought little of it until her health problems started to compound in ways that baffled her doctors. Diagnosed with extreme liver blockage and dangerous levels of lymph fluid, Joselin turned to the most similar case she could think of - her father's.
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This is the origin story of the airwaves - the foundational technology of the communications age - as told through the 40-year friendship of an entrepreneurial industrialist and a brilliant inventor. David Sarnoff, the head of RCA and equal parts Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, and William Randolph Hearst, was the greatest supporter of his friend, Edwin Armstrong, developer of the first amplifier, the modern radio transmitter, and FM radio.
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The Classic Struggle
- De Jean en 06-01-16
De: Scott Woolley
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They Came for Freedom
- The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
- De: Jay Milbrandt
- Narrado por: Wayne Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Once a year at Thanksgiving, we encounter Pilgrims as folksy people in funny hats before promptly forgetting them. In the centuries since America began, the Pilgrims have been relegated to folklore and children's stories, fairy-tale mascots for holiday parties and greeting cards. The true story of the Pilgrim fathers could not be more different.
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Very dramatic history
- De Ted Baehr en 09-12-22
De: Jay Milbrandt
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- 10-15-23
Required reading for every high school student
Excellent exploration into a little known piece of American history that unfortunately is ugly - Chin did an extraordinary feat of research in uncovering how Chinese immigrants were treated for almost 61 years until barbaric laws were finally overturned.
This book is very timely in light of the immigration issues we are facing today
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- Emmanuelle Perryman
- 05-26-23
A Beautiful Story
Ava Chin’s book is a must! Love, loyalty, betrayal, history, A wonderfully amazing family saga.
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- E.
- 11-18-23
Captivating, fascinating and important read!
In this captivating audiobook, the author's emotive narration skillfully weaves a beautiful tapestry of stories, engaging listeners in a journey from the broad strokes of history to intimate family details. Her inclusion of overlooked Chinese exclusion history enriches the narrative, and her emotional delivery adds a profound connection, making this a must-listen for a compelling exploration of history and family dynamics. A must listen!!
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- C. Tilney
- 01-30-24
elegiac, compelling family history
some of the early sections engaged me less, but as she got into the 1920s and later, this was wonderful and informative, compassionate and clear eyes
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- Laura Bajor
- 05-16-23
Brilliant
Evocative, joyful, haunting….have stood on that street many times but have a new appreciation for the people and places Chin so brilliantly describes. Can’t wait for her next book!
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- Anne
- 04-28-23
Tender, Loving, Powerful and Important
We should all be so lucky to have a writer like Ava Chin in our family. I enjoyed this book immensely. It's a highly personal family story, beautifully written. It's important American history as well -- and, in this era of nonstop refugee migration, we do ourselves a favor to understand the impact of the shameful Chinese Exclusion Act. Mott Street, where Ava's family settled, is also the main drag in New York City's Chinatown. So there's some fascinating New York history too. This is a wide-ranging, yet riveting portrait of a very interesting family. The author did the narration and rightly so: it's her story, told perfectly.
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- Holly Kimmitt
- 05-13-23
Thoroughly researched
A bit redundant and the names were confusing but a clever premise of using Mott Street a a venue for the Chinese American experience.
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- Hot and stuffy office worker
- 08-02-23
Enlightening and Enveloping
The story got more and more interesting the further I got into the book. I love the way she created the plot and wove the characters (family members) in.
I learned so much about the history of the Chinese people in America. It was surprising, saddening, and uplifting.
I really enjoyed listening to the author read the book. She made it so easy to listen to and brought me into the story with her vulnerability and openness.
I read Ava's book Eating Wildly before this and loved it. I'd highly recommend that one too.
Great book, great author!
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-24-23
A fascinating slice of America
It was so engaging looking at history through the prism of one family. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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