Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author . Soho $23 (239p) ISBN 978-1-56947-466-2
Ah Lung, the youngest son in a family of silk producers, is kidnapped and forced into slavery in McCunn's underpowered latest. Though Ah Lung signs a labor contract that promises generous wages and a limited term of employment, once he begins...
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Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author Design Enterprises of San Francisco $14.95 (235p) ISBN 978-0-932538-62-8
This is a fictionalized account of an actual event: 22-year-old Poon Lim's 133 days alone at sea following the WW II sinking in the South Atlantic of the British freighter on which this Chinese steward worked. Based on interviews with Poon, the...
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Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-93927-6
McCunn's second novel (after Thousand Pieces of Gold) returns to a subject she treated in the nonfiction Chinese-American Portraits, as she again tells an affecting story of a lonely, dedicated life. This is a fictionalized biography (documented...
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Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author Beacon Press (MA) $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8348-2
In China in the 1830s, three young girls pledge never to be wives or nuns, the conventional paths open to them, but to live independently. McCunn's colorful third novel (after Thousand Pieces of Gold) follows the adventures of Shadow, Rooster and...
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Ruthanne Lum McCune, Author, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $16.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-87701-491-1
The experience of the Chinese in America offers compelling analogies for U.S. immigrants of all backgrounds. Born in San Francisco's Chinatown, the author of Thousand Pieces of Gold notes the difference between two Chinese-English phrasebooks...
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