Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown by Jeffrey L Staley

Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown

Jeffrey L Staley

362 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical emotional slow-paced
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Gum Moon (Cantonese for "Gold Door" or "Golden Gate") is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper. A sympathetic prostitute befriends Chun, but t...

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