Held me captive right from the start.Alan Cheuse NPR All ThingsConsideredHer clear voice and simple but elegant style easily turns thiswork into a real pageturn... » 

Held me captive right from the start.Alan Cheuse NPR All ThingsConsideredHer clear voice and simple but elegant style easily turns thiswork into a real pageturner.Library JournalA vivid tale of a farawaytime.Asian WeekBeautifully combines the hardships and brutality of thekidnapping of a Chinese man conditions on the slave ships and the bitternessof backbreaking labor in a foreign land with the sadness and determination of awife and family back home. . . . A story of emotional depth and truth.LisaSee author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanWill keep readers spellboundand cheering to the final page.Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston author of Farewellto ManzanarI love God of Luck.Da Chen author of BrothersAh Lungand his beloved wife Bo See are separated by cruel fate when like thousandsof other Chinese men in the nineteenth century he is kidnapped enslaved andshipped to the deadly guano mines off the coast of Peru. Praying to the God ofLuck and using their own wits they never lose hope of someday beingreunited.Ruthanne Lum McCunn of Scottish and Chinese ancestry is theauthor of the classic Thousand Pieces of Gold The Moon Pearl and WoodenFish Songs. God of Luck was a Book Sense Pick. She lives in San Francisco. «