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Chasing Down the Moon by Baku, Carla is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"All around her the day looked as she might have expected, bright, the sun just skimming through the eastern peaks, the up-and-down song of little yellow-throated birds. In that moment, she understood the nature of her life: an outlier." In 1883, a young Chinese woman is sold by her father to human traffickers and forcibly taken from her family and home in the mountains of Hunan. Facing brutality and deprivation, Ya Zhen must forge within herself a core of strength that will allow her to survive. Her journey ends thousands of miles and a continent away when shes purchased in San Francisco as an indentured prostitute and taken to Eureka, a rugged and remote area of coastal California. This fledgling outposta coarse place filled with lumber mills, brothels, churches, and saloonsis bounded by ocean on one side and heavy redwood forests everywhere else. In Eureka, another woman, Rose Allen, doesnt quite fit in. Big-hearted, but hard-headed and outspoken, Rose struggles against the prejudices and social expectations of her Victorian neighbors and acquaintancesespecially after she falls in love with the Chinese shopkeeper, Bai Lum. When she learns that several Chinese women are kept as v

Who reads Chasing Down the Moon?

Author

Baku, Carla

Publisher

Look Ma No Hands Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780986171710

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

4.32 / 5 (146 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14