\u201cThe Fortunes is the kind of book that raises far more questions than it resolves. Not only does it present a vast swathe of often-ignored history, in deftly fictionalized form, it\u2019s an empathetic book, not just to its protagonists but to its secondary and tertiary characters and even, often, to its villains. <\/p>\n
It questions motivations, feelings, intentions, rarely certain despite the author\u2019s fictional imperative. Sometimes I found myself wondering \u2015 why is Vincent Chin\u2019s friend curious at all about the kind of father-stepson relationship Chin\u2019s killers had? Why should I care? But The Fortunesisn\u2019t out to convince you that you should care about that, or anything in particular. Instead, it\u2019s doing what a great novel should do: revealing what there is to care about and to think about. Even better, it\u2019s revealing those questions about a slice of history that America needs to be dealing with. <\/p>\n
The Bottom Line: In a thought-provoking, sharply written, four-part novelistic chronicle of Chinese-American life, The Fortunes proves uneven at times but the powerful prose and themes shine through.\u201d\u2014Huffington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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