Jamiew Ford: Love and Other Consolation Prizes [2018] paperback Condition:New Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction

Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award

of children

no one can foresee just how far-reaching

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Jamiew Ford: Love and Other Consolation Prizes [2018] paperback Condition:New Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction1909, Seattle. At the World's Fair a half Chinese boy called Ernest Young is raffled off as a prize. He ends up working in a brothel in Seattle's famed Red Light District and falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a flamboyant madam, and Fahn, a karayuki san, a Japanese maid sold into servitude. On the eve of the new World's Fair in 1962, Ernest looks back on the past, the memories he made with his beloved wife while his daughter, a reporter,