Love and other consolation prizes
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jamie Ford
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780804176750
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Families; Raffles; Brothels; Chinese Americans; Orphans; Friendship; Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.); Fiction
Description: A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.