

"This poignant, gently humorous novel is about prejudice and acceptance....15-year-old Joan Lee is a child of two worlds. As a Chinese American, she has never felt her separateness more than now, in 1927, in this new place in West Virginia. Only Miss Lucy, their landlord and...


It is 1927, and the Lees are the only Chinese Americans in Clarksburg, West Virginia. No one welcomes Joan and her family, until Joan meets a mysterious girl, and things begin to change.


It is 1927, and the Lees are the only Chinese Americans in Clarksburg, West Virginia. No one welcomes Joan and her family, until Joan meets a mysterious girl, and things begin to change.


A Chinese family's experiences when they arrive from Ohio to open a West Virginia laundry in 1927.


