The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B Moore

The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B Moore

Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1890s.

When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she'll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother's opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is put on a ship headed for San Francisco, known among the Chinese as Gold Mountain. When she arrives, she is forced to go by the new name listed on her paper documents: Tien Fu Wu.

Her new life as a servant at a gambling den is hard. She is told to stay hidden, to stay silent, and to perform an endless list of chores, or else she will be punished. Tien Fu thinks her life couldn't get any worse, until she is sold again to an abusive shopkeeper and tasked to care for a young boy. If she is to survive, Tien Fu must persevere, and learn who to trust.

When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco to teach sewing at a mission home for orphaned Asian girls, she meets Tien Fu, who is willful, defiant, and unwilling to trust anyone. Dolly quickly learns that all the girls at the home were freed from lives of servitude and maltreatment. Dolly immediately joins the group of women dedicated to saving more of these paper daughters because some in authority have turned a blind eye to the situation.

Despite many challenges, Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they mentor and help those in the mission home and work to win the freedom of thousands of immigrant women and girls.

Heather B. Moore, pen name H.B. Moore, is a USA Today bestselling author of more than a dozen historical books and thrillers. Heather B. Moore is a writer of women's fiction, romance, and inspirational nonfiction. Moore. While all of this can be confusing, her children simply refer to her as Mom. Heather attended Cairo American College in Egypt, the Anglican School of Jerusalem in Israel, and Brigham Young University in Utah, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree. Jane Dystel of Dystel, Goderich, and Bourret is Heather's agent.

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ISBN 13	9781639930944
ISBN 10	1639930949
Title	The Paper Daughters of Chinatown
Author	Heather B Moore
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Shadow Mountain
Year published	2023-04-11
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.