01427cam a2200265 i 4500 296121196 TxAuBib 20160914120000.0 160229s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016005161 9780544263703 0544263707 eng rda TxAuBib rda Davies, Peter Ho, 1966- The fortunes [BOOK] / Peter Ho Davies. New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. 268 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 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 Asian Americans, 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. 20160914. Chinese Americans Fiction. Historical fiction.