![]() ![]() Ling falls in love with Little Sister, but she won't have sex with him without receiving payment. Little Sister works alongside Ling at the laundry, a job she balances in addition to her second career as a prostitute. He arrives in San Francisco and works at Uncle Ng's laundry, dreaming of someday amassing a fortune. After his mother dies, he is sold, at the age of 14, to a laundryman in America. ![]() The first part of the book, "Celestial Railroad," centers on Chinese orphan Ah Ling, the biracial son of a white man and a Chinese prostitute. The Fortunes won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and The New York Times named it a Notable Book. Each tale features a character of Chinese descent, three of whom Davies based on real people, as they attempt to navigate the world in their respective eras, resulting in a generation-spanning saga of a larger immigrant family. British author and academic Peter Ho Davies’s historical novel The Fortunes (2016) is presented in the form of four interconnected short stories. ![]()
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