How Much of these Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang, April 7, 2020, Riverhead Books
Genre: re-imagined history, adventure, fantasy
Setting: ending of the American Gold Rush
Two young siblings, orphaned and alone after the death of their Chinese parents in the California of the Gold Rush, set out to give their father a burial that they feel is appropriate. They embark on various adventures, discover a strange landscape, and glimpse "a different kind of future."
Book beginning:
Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars.Sam's tapping an angry beat come morning, but Lucy, before they go, feels the need to speak. Silence weighs harder on her, pushes till she gives way.
"Sorry," she says to Ba in his bed. The sheet that tucks him in is the only clean stretch in this dim and dusty shack, every surface black with coal. Ba didn't heed the mess while living and in death his mean squint goes right past it. Past Lucy. Straight to Sam. Sam, the favorite, round bundle of impatience circling the doorway in too-big boots....
Page 56:
"Then of course you know what's in these mountains," the man says, a smile playing on his face.
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