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Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awardfor literature that confronts racism and examines diversityWinner of the 2017 Chautauqua PrizeFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace PrizeA New York Times Notable Book'Riveting and luminous...Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.'—Jesmyn Ward“[A] complex, beautiful novel... Stunning.”—NPR, Best Books of 2016 “Intense and dreamlike... filled with quiet resonances across time.”—The New Yorker Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron's valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood's first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood.“A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.”—Joyce Carol Oates

Who reads The Fortunes : A Novel?

Author

Peter Ho Davies

Publisher

Boston ; New York: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780544263789

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (338 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14