The Fortunes: A Novel

The Fortunes: A Novel

<DIV><B>From the author of <I>The Welsh Girl</I> comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel.</B><BR /><BR /> Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, <I>The Fortunes </I>recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.<BR />   <BR /> 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 Asian Americans, 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.<BR />   <BR /> Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories—three inspired by real historical characters—to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.</DIV>