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

2.0

If I said Shanghai Girls were a little too obviously made up, this one is the opposite extreme - incredibly factual it's almost difficult to enjoy at times. All those families, names, years, shops, locations, numbers, and of course drama makes for a great story. There were incredibly interesting parts and then some not so much. I admired Fong See - his risk taking, generosity, ambition, intelligence, love and perseverance allowed him status in an America at a time where there was incredible intolerance for non-white races and miscegenation laws were in place. Chinese people are still as hardworking as ever.