Sunday, August 26, 2018

August 2018 Host:  Stephanie

Love and Other Consolation Prizes by Jamie Ford

Summary

In this story, a young Chinese-American boy is sold by his mother in order to give him a better life during a time of famine in China.  He boards a freighter bound for the United States and ends up at a boy’s school.  When he becomes rebellious, he ends up being raffled off at the 1910 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle. He is purchased by the madame of a house in the red-light district and befriends two girls, one of which will play a big part in his future.  The author then weaves the main character’s later years into the story with the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair as the backdrop.  This is a beautiful story with very well developed characters.  

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Lunch at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant