Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

217 pages first pub 1981 (editions) user-added

fiction historical emotional reflective fast-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Lalu Nathoy's father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a ...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...