| Elegantly textured, encompassing several voices and intricately woven plot lines, Gift of the Golden Mountain is the story of a family s passions, past and present, played out against the explosive Vietnam era in San Francisco and Berkeley, Hawaii, China and finally the fall of Saigon in 1975. It chronicles the odyssey of a young, part-Chinese heiress, May Reade, as she searches through her illustrious heritage for the roots of her own identity and her struggle to reconcile her Asian self with the American. That journey will take her from the antiwar barricades in Berkeley to the primitive villages of a strange and distant land, from confu- sion and hurt to self-knowledge and love. Gift of the Golden Mountain is the continuing story of California s prominent Reade family first chronicled in the author s best-selling novel Hers the Kingdom. May s American father, a famous radical, died when she was thirteen; her beautiful but mysteriously heartbroken Chinese mother suf- fered a loss of face that forced her to abandon Meijin soon after her birth. Throughout her life May has been haunted by the question Why did my mother leave me? May longs for resolution at any price, and she risks her life to meet her mother. |
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