Songs of Willow Frost
Subtitle: [a novel]
By: Jamie Ford
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print basic
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
ISBN-13: 9781410462183
Subjects: Actresses; Depressions; Sexual abuse victims; Chinese Americans; Orphans; Fiction; Orphanages; Large type books; Mother and child
Description: It is the Great Depression. Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother's listless body was carried away from their small apartment five years ago. On his birthday -- or rather, the day the nuns designate as his birthday -- William and the other orphans are taken to the historical Moore Theatre, where William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who goes by the name of Willow Frost. Struck by her features, William is convinced that the movie star is his mother, Liu Song.  Determined to find Willow, and prove his mother is still alive, William escapes from Sacred Heart with his friend Charlotte. The pair navigates the streets of Seattle, where they must not only survive, but confront the mysteries of William's past and his connection to the exotic film star. The story of Willow Frost, however, is far more complicated than the Hollywood fantasy William sees onscreen.
Notes: "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged"--Title page verso.

Includes a reader's guide.