'The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. A four-part suite of astute, lyrical, and often poignant stories poses incisive questions. 'The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience.'-Celeste Ng From the author of The Welsh Girl comes a groundbreaking, provocative new novel. 'A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.'-Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation

Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Fortunes. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Inhabiting four lives-a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor Hollywood's first Chinese movie star a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption-this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive-as much through love as blood. The Fortunes - Ebook written by Peter Ho Davies. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. filled with quiet resonances across time.'-The New Yorker 'Riveting and luminous.Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.'-Jesmyn Ward For literature that confronts racism and examines diversityįinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies