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Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Wooden Fish Songs

Ruthanne Lum McCunn

385 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

fiction historical challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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"Wooden fish songs" were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life - and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial discrim...

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