As a young girl growing up in a Chinese village, Wong didn't remember her father, who sent money from his U.S. home. Then Baba gathers enough funds to bring his family to "Gold Mountain" with him, and together with her mother and sister, Wong prepares for the interrogation at Angel Island. In this briskly narrated memoir, Wong recounts her family's journey from their Chinese village to Oakland, California's Chinatown during the 1930s. The plain words leave room for readers to imagine their own emotional responses as Wong wonders about her faraway father, lies to immigration officials, and tries to help her family stay afloat. Gillian Engberg. Copyright © American Library Association.
Hardcover, English, 8.7" x 6.3"
