01934cam a2200313 4500 526434884 TxAuBib 20211106120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781935639565 1935639560 B00YTVQ16S Amazon e80432b1-4ec2-4cda-9be8-b86b996610a6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1273211 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Shepard, Karen. The Celestials [OverDrive] : A Novel. Tin House Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 977kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:In June of 1870, seventy-five Chinese laborers arrived in North Adams, Massachusetts, to work for Calvin Sampson, one of the biggest industrialists in that busy factory town. Except for the foreman, the Chinese didn’t speak English. They didn’t know they were strikebreakers. The eldest of them was twenty-two.<br /> <br /> Combining historical and fictional elements, The Celestials beautifully reimagines the story of Sampson’s “Chinese experiment” and the effect of the newcomers’ threatening and exotic presence on the New England locals. When Sampson’s wife, Julia, gives birth to a mixed-race baby, the infant becomes a lightning rod for the novel’s conflicts concerning identity, alienation, and exile. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/celestials?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/celestials?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/celestials?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)