On Gold Mountain

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan has sold over 85,000 copies (Nielsen BookScan). For fans of multi-generational memoirs such as WILD SWANS by Jung Chang and FALLING LEAVES by Adeline Yen Mah

A fascinating memoir of a Chinese-American family by the bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanIn 1867, Lisa See's great-great-grandfather left China in search of riches on the 'Gold Mountain', the Chinese name for the promised land of America. His son Fong See later built a mercantile empire and married a Caucasian woman, in spite of laws that prohibited unions between the races. Through sheer endeavour and entrepreneurial genius he became one of the most successful Chinese men in the country. Over the decades, each generation of the See family strived to grasp their dreams, realise their ambitions and overcome their disappointments and sorrows. This sweeping chronicle of five generations of a Chinese-American family encompasses stories of adventure and heartache, racism and romance, secret marriages and sibling rivalries. On Gold Mountain is a powerful social history of two cultures meeting in a new world.