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All That Matters by Wayson Choy is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is All That Matters about?
Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the new family of Third Uncle, a wealthy businessman whose own wife and son are dead. The place known as Gold Mountain is Vancouver, Canada, and Third Uncle needs help in his large Chinatown warehouse. Canada's 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act forces them, and many others, to use false documents, or ghost papers, to get past the 'immigration demons' and become Third Uncle's Gold Mountain family. This is the beginning of All That Matters , the eagerly anticipated sequel to Wayson Choy's bestselling first novel, The Jade Peony . The author takes us once again to the Vancouver of the 1930s and 1940s to follow the lives of the Chen family, this time through the experiences of First Son, Kiam-Kim, whose childhood and...
Who reads All That Matters?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Wayson Choy
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385257770
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (100 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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