On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Scrutable Family Success
There's not much magic realism or mystic exoticism about this blunt, detailed, multi-generational history of an immigrant family. If you're looking for a novel, you'll find that Lisa See has written several. I repeat, this is a history, and it...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Enjoyable read, a history lesson
I had read "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and just loved it. This book is just as absorbing. The reader is transported to another time and place. I enjoy historical fiction. This is a good story based on the history of Lisa See's family. It was...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
Truly relocating you to a different time, a different place
I cannot express what wonderful storytelling of 100 years odyssey this book was. It was filled with historic detail, from China to the United States, as they referred to it as Gold Mountain. The patriach, Fong See was a merchant, and you will...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
The diversity of living
I read On Gold Mountain slowly, with days between chapters to think about new ideas. On Gold Mountain was many things to me. A true story, it captures the diversity of life: hopeful and heartbreaking; success and failure; riches and poverty;...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 28, 2007 Type: User Review |
A perfect example of how a family history should be written
Genealogy buffs would do well to read this "One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of [Lisa See's] Chinese-American History" as an excellent example of how to write their own family histories. See, one-eighth Chinese, interviewed "close to one hundred people"...
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