How Much Of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel

"The Western gold rush is in full swing. Ma’s long gone, and when Ba dies, siblings Lucy and Sam are suddenly on their own – Chinese American orphans in a scrappy mining town. They set out for the hills with Ba’s body in a chest, determined to give him a proper burial. But nothing comes easy in a place that is as cruel as it is beautiful. C Pam Zhang’s stunning debut novel wends forward and backward in time, asking in stark terms what it takes to claim a piece of the American dream."