The Fortunes
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Fiction | 2017 | Winner |
About This Book
A novel in four parts spanning more than 150 years of Chinese American history: a railroad worker in the 1860s; a Chinese actress navigating old Hollywood; Vincent Chin and the 1982 murder that galvanised the Asian American community; and a contemporary adoption story. A formally inventive and historically rich account of the Chinese American experience and the struggle for belonging. Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction.
About the Author
Peter Ho Davies is a British-American author of Welsh and Chinese descent. Born in Coventry, England, in 1966, he studied at Cambridge University and the University of Manchester, and later received his MA from Boston University. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan. Read more →
