He has also published two short story collections, The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience. In addition to this new novel, Davies is also the author of The Fortunes, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and The Welsh Girl, which was long-listed for the Booker Prize. “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience.”-Celeste Ng “A prophetic work, with passages of surpassing beauty.”-Joyce Carol Oates, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award citation

Inhabiting four lives-a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption-this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive-as much through love as blood. Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. filled with quiet resonances across time.”- The New Yorker Daviess first novel, The Welsh Girl was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and he was adjudged one of Grantas Best Young British Novelists. 'Riveting and luminous.Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.'-Jesmyn Ward His first novel, The Welsh Girl, a LondonTimesBest Seller, was long-listed for the Booker Prize. For literature that confronts racism and examines diversityįinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize His previous novel, The Fortunes, a New York TimesNotable Book, won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and the Chautauqua Prize, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies