\t\t\t\t\u201cThe Fortunes <\/i>is the kind of book that raises far more questions than it resolves. Not only does it present a vast swathe of often-ignored history, in deftly fictionalized form, it\u2019s an empathetic book, not just to its protagonists but to its secondary and tertiary characters and even, often, to its villains. It questions motivations, feelings, intentions, rarely certain despite the author\u2019s fictional imperative. Sometimes I found myself wondering \u2015 why is Vincent Chin\u2019s friend curious at all about the kind of father-stepson relationship Chin\u2019s killers had? Why should I care?\u00a0 But The Fortunes<\/i>isn\u2019t out to convince you that you should care about that, or anything in particular. Instead, it\u2019s doing what a great novel should do: revealing what there is to care about and to think about. Even better, it\u2019s revealing those questions about a slice of history that America needs to be dealing with.\u00a0 The Bottom Line: In a thought-provoking, sharply written, four-part novelistic chronicle of Chinese-American life, The Fortunes<\/i> proves uneven at times but the powerful prose and themes shine through.\u201d\u2014Huffington Post<\/b>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"