Love and other consolation prizes

Description:

A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.

subjects: Families,  Raffles,  Brothels,  Chinese Americans,  Orphans,  Friendship,  Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.),  Fiction,  Seattle (wash.), fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, historical,  Fiction, coming of age,  Fiction, family life,  Chinese americans, fiction,  Fiction, historical, general,  FICTION / Literary,  Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909 : Seattle, Wash.) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86025612 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n86025612