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Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown
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Gum Moon (Cantonese for “Gold Door” or “Golden Gate”) is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper. A sympathetic prostitute befriends Chun, but two years later, at the height of a plague quarantine, Chun is thrust into a

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Release dateAug 20, 2018
ISBN9781732244511
Gum Moon: A Novel of San Francisco Chinatown

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