The Fortunes - Peter Ho Davies

nWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award nfor literature that confronts racism and examines diversity nWinner of the 2017 Chautauqua Prize n nFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize n nA New York Times Notable Book nRiveting and luminous...Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.--Jesmyn Ward n n A] complex, beautiful novel . . .

Stunning.--NPR, Best Books of 2016 n n Intense and dreamlike . . .

filled with quiet resonances across time.--The New Yorker n Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. n n 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. n nA prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.--Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation n n A poignant, cascading four-part novel .

. . Outstanding.--David Mitchell, Guardian n n The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I've read about the Chinese American experience.--Celeste Ngn