How Much of These Hills Is Gold
A Novel
by C Pam Zhang
Recommended by Barack Obama and Bethanne Patrick
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape_x0097_trying not just to survive but to find a home.Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
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