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Author:

Ye, Chun.

Title:

Straw dogs of the universe / Ye Chun.

Edition:

First Catapult edition.

Publisher:

Catapult,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

317 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Asian Americans--California--Fiction.
Chinese--California--History--19th century--Fiction.
Indentured servants--California--Fiction.
Railroad construction workers--California--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
California--History--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Summary:

"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family. As she makes her way through an unforgiving new world, her father, a railroad worker in California, finds his attempts to build a life for himself both upended and defined by along-lost love and the seemingly inescapable violence of the American West. A generational saga ranging from the villages of China to the establishment of the transcontinental railroad and the anti-Chinese movement in California, Straw Dogs of the Universe considers the tenacity of family ties and the courage it takes to survive in a country that rejects you, even as it relies upon your labor."--Dust jacket flap.

ISBN:

1646220625
9781646220625

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1368151917

LCCN:

2023936798

Locations:

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KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

YMPD532 -- Monticello Public Library (Monticello)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

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SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

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