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

Did not finish book.

A book I really wanted to enjoy. It’s the tale of a Chinese immigrant and his family. The patriarch comes over to work on the railroad but recognizes that is a dead-end and creates his own important business. He builds up an empire despite the xenophobia faced by the Chinese at that time. Interspersed with his rise to power are multiple marriages in the U.S. and China and siblings and chidren and more.
Yet it was dull. The story read like a recitation of events rather than a narrative built on a theme. I wanted to like it but finally gave up reading.