Wooden Fish Songs

Title

Wooden Fish Songs

Subject

Lue, Gim Gong, -- 1858 or 9-1925 -- Fiction. Chinese American women -- Fiction. Citrus fruit industry -- Fiction. Chinese Americans -- Fiction. Florida -- Fiction. China -- Fiction.

Description

A fictionalized biography of botanist Lue Gim Gong, the "plant wizard" who created Florida's orange hybrids. A tale of the Chinese immigrant experience narrated by three women, one a daughter of black slaves who worked with him. By the author of Thousand Pieces of Gold.

Creator

McCunn, Ruthanne Lum

Publisher

Penguin Books

Date

1995

Type

PS3563 .C353 W66

Identifier

2003.500.3741

Collection