Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown by Jeffrey Staley

Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown

Jeffrey Staley

362 pages missing pub info (editions)

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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Gum Moon (Cantonese for "Gold Door" or "Golden Gate") is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper. A sympathetic prostitute befriends Chun, but t...

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