num_pages: 400
description: The story of Lue Gim Gong, a Chinese immigrant to nineteenth-century America, who rose from virtual indentured servitude in New England to fame as a botanist, is told through the voices of three generations of Chinese women who cared for him. 15,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Wooden Fish Songs
titlecomplete: Wooden Fish Songs
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 101
publisher: Plume