{"product_id":"fortunes","title":"Fortunes","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFortunes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePeter Ho Davies\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781328745484\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMariner Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003efor literature that confronts racism and examines diversity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2017 Chautauqua Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eNotable Book \u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Riveting and luminous...Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.\"--Jesmyn Ward\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\"[A] complex, beautiful novel . . . Stunning.\"--NPR, Best Books of 2016 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Intense and dreamlike . . . filled with quiet resonances across time.\"--\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortunes \u003c\/em\u003erecasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\"A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.\"--Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A poignant, cascading four-part novel . . . Outstanding.\"--David Mitchell, \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience.\"--Celeste Ng\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Fortunes | Peter Ho Davies | Paperback | 9781328745484 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1668359","offer_id":48312995676312,"sku":"1668359","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81WHgk-T_xL.jpg?v=1773159021","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/fortunes","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}