The Fortunes

"A beautifully constructed novel told in four disparate though loosely linked parts, The Fortunes tackles the experience of being Chinese in America. Peter Ho Davies writes with a rare emotional resonance and a deft sense of structure about four different people, in different periods of American history, grappling with the fact that they are seen as “less than” whites. This complex, rich novel asks what it means to be a person navigating the strands of identity, the things that made us who we are, whoever that is."