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The City of Jade Trees: A Family Memoir
By Margaret Woo
Hardcover
$31.99
By Margaret Woo
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An eloquent chronicle of the fortunes of four generations of one family, whose lives intertwine with pivotal moments in U.S. immigration and Chinese American history
“I have made you a fish, now you must find water.” As family lore has it, Margaret Woo’s great-great-grandmother spoke these words to her son before he left for America in the 1880s. She had sold her only water buffalo to pay for the steam ship ticket, knowing that in sending him in search of a better life, she might never see ...