\u201cA\u00a0powerful novel that unflinchingly examines both the degrading lives of immigrants in the 1800s and the identity crises of modern mixes-race families. Throughout it all, Davies remains sympathetic to his heroes\u2014although they have been all but lost in the flow of history, a deft hand can still pull them into prominence\u2026The brilliance of The Fortunes<\/i> is not that it expertly dissects Chinese American-ness–or American-ness, for that matter. Davies has conjured a book that forces its readers to find the pressures they<\/i> face in their own lives, to see how the struggle of self-identity and one’s place in the world is alive in each and every one of us.”\u2014Shelf Awareness<\/b><\/p>\n
“Absorbing.”\u2014New York Daily News, <\/i>“7 books to read in September”<\/b><\/p>\n
“The book is more than the sum of its parts, and Davies (the son of Welsh and Chinese parents) achieves an extraordinary novelistic intimacy against backdrops of historical vibrancy. Moreover, he considers what it means to be identified with, but not now belong to, an ancestral culture one can\u2019t escape or fully embrace \u2014 in an immigrant society that promises but doesn\u2019t deliver full racial inclusion.”\u00a0\u2014Seattle Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[125,128],"product_tag":[90,111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo2.tokomoo.com\/pustaka-el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}