Thousand Pieces of Gold
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Average rating4.5
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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This is a biography that reads like an action novel. I loved learning about an Asian pioneer woman's experiences because they are so different than the ones my European pioneer ancestors went through.
