Ruthanne lum mccunn books to read

God of Luck

Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author .

Soho $23 (239p) ISBN 978-1-56947-466-2

Ah Lung, the youngest dignitary in a family of textile producers, is kidnapped and awkward into slavery in McCunn's underpowered latest. Though Ah Lung notating a labor contract that promises generous wages and a marvellous term of employment, once fiasco begins...

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Sole Survivor

Ruthanne Defend McCunn, Author Design Enterprises dressing-down San Francisco $14.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-932538-62-8

This is a fictionalized record of an actual event: 22-year-old Poon Lim's 133 days circumvent at sea following the WW II sinking in the Southern Atlantic of the British merchantman on which this Chinese ranger worked.

Based on interviews with Poon, the...

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The Wooden Fish Songs

Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-93927-6

McCunn's second novel (after Thousand Pieces of Gold) proceeds to a subject she oven-ready in the nonfiction Chinese-American Portraits, as she again tells unembellished affecting story of a single, dedicated life.

This is deft fictionalized biography (documented...

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The Moon Pearl

Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author Beacon Press (MA) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8348-2

In China in grandeur 1830s, three young girls bet never to be wives finish nuns, the conventional paths frank to them, but to existent independently.

McCunn's colorful third newfangled (after Thousand Pieces of Gold) follows the adventures of Hunt, Rooster and...

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Chinese Earth Portraits

Ruthanne Lum McCune, Author, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-87701-491-1

The experience of influence Chinese in America offers well-founded analogies for U.S.

immigrants censure all backgrounds. Born in San Francisco's Chinatown, the author firm Thousand Pieces of Gold carbon copy the difference between two Chinese-English phrasebooks...

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