Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, Peony signs a contract to work as a "flower girl" in America, where she meets Tom, an American-born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Theirs is the story of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States, a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food, and the search for everlasting love, set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles' Chinatown, in 1871.
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Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, Peony signs a contract to work as a "flower girl" in America, where she meets Tom, an American-born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Theirs is the story of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States, a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food, and the search for everlasting love, set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles' Chinatown, in 1871.
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