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A review by tekchic
On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family by Lisa See
Did not finish book.
This is a DNF (did not finish). I love Lisa See's novels, and am looking forward to reading The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. I love the history of the American West in the 1880's. This however, was an exhaustive history of her family's lineage dating back to the 1880's. It was okay in parts, but then almost ended up feeling like the "begats" in the Bible, where it kept including minutiae I wasn't interested in.
I was hoping to get more history of the area, conditions, and the building of the American West vs the history of one family down to the specific details of their immigration records interviews (consequently where I gave up). If you're a "See" family, awesome book. Anyone else, it might be a difficult read to get through.
Still looking forward to The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, though. :)
I was hoping to get more history of the area, conditions, and the building of the American West vs the history of one family down to the specific details of their immigration records interviews (consequently where I gave up). If you're a "See" family, awesome book. Anyone else, it might be a difficult read to get through.
Still looking forward to The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, though. :)