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050	0	0	_aPS3611.A357 _bG65 2004
082	0	0	_a92 KAI
100	1		_aKai, Irene, 1950-
245	1	4	_aThe golden mountain _b: beyond the American dream _c/ Irene Kai
250			_a1st edition
260			_aAshland, Or. _b: Silver Light Publications _c, 2004.
300			_a368 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_a"The Golden Mountain" tells a powerful personal story that is shaped by the collision of traditional Chinese and modern American culture. Spanning four generations of women, the characters include Great-Grandmother Wong Oi, whose desperate status seeking ruins her life; Grandmother Choi Kum, an educated woman who ends up with ten children in America; and mother Margaret, who takes the pressures of a hateful forced marriage out on her children. One of those children, author Irene Kai, is caught in the clash of traditional and modern ways. She responds by descending into sex and drugs and a high-flying Beverly Hills lifestyle, culminating in a growing awareness that the scars she bears are reappearing in her own children. Scenes of raw passion, anger, brutality, and pleasure intermingle in this stunning narrative that' s both specific in the details of a woman navigating two cultures and universal in its portrayal of pain and transformation.
650		4	_aImmigrants _v--Fiction
650		0	_aAsian American women _x--Ficiton
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