Thousand pieces of gold
Subtitle: a biographical novel
By: by Ruthanne Lum McCunn.
Series: Bluestreak
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Bemis, Polly, 1853-1933 -- Fiction; Chinese American women -- Fiction; Women immigrants -- Fiction; Women ranchers -- Fiction; Women slaves -- Fiction; Idaho -- Fiction; China -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one women's fight for independence and dignity in the American West."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-339).