Jamie Ford’s new novel The Many Daughters of Afong Moy is a global, multigenerational novel about five women. It’s based on a true person, Afong Moy, who in 1834, was the first Chinese woman to come to America. Ford extrapolates her life into the fictional lives of five of her descendants in chapters from the 1800s to the not-so-distant future. Moy was brought to America by ... Read More...

