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LOVE AND OTHER CONSOLATION PRIZES
By: Jamie Ford
Ballantine Books
June 2018
On Sale: June 19, 2018
336 pages
ISBN: 0804176779
EAN: 9780804176774
Kindle: B01N5GV31V
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Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
Inspired by a true story, a powerful novel about an orphan boy who is raffled off at Seattleβs 1909 World Fair, and the friends who teach him what it really means to have a family, from the author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. This is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle worldβs fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seems limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is closed. A charity student at a boarding school, he has never really had a place to call home. Then one day, his wealthy sponsor announces that if a home is what he wants, then that is what he will have: Ernest will be offered as a prize in the daily raffle at the fair, advertised as βHealthy boy to a good home for the winning ticket holder.β The woman who βwinsβ him is the madam of a notorious brothel who was famous for educating her girls. He becomes a houseboy in her brothel and is befriended by the daughter of the madam, as well as a Japanese girl who works in the kitchen. The friendship and love between these three form the first real family Ernest has ever known.
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