Thousand pieces of gold: A biographical novel

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This masterful biographical novel which has sold more than 100 000 copies tells the true life story of Lalu Nathoy a young Chinese girl sold into slavery in 1871 by her poverty-stricken family and auctioned off in the American West. McCunn tells the gripping tale of how Lalu struggled out of servitude to achieve a life of freedom and dignity as a pioneer woman. "A valuable book that gives Chinese Americans another true heroine." Maxine Hong Kingston