On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See

On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

Lisa See

394 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional reflective slow-paced

Description

When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown. There, her grand-mother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colorful stories about their family's past - stories of m...

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Moods

informative 90%
reflective 70%
emotional 40%
adventurous 30%
hopeful 30%
inspiring 30%
challenging 10%
dark 10%
funny 10%
relaxing 10%

Pace

slow 72%
medium 27%

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3.66

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