A Historical Reality Check
For those unfamiliar with the horrific historical reality of the impacts of the Chinese Exclusion Act Ava Chin offers a raw, inspiring, and heart wrenching look inside one of the dark marks in our nation’s history. The reader is taken on the perilous journeys of the author’s family members as they navigate an American landscape in the not so distant past, that is so often overlooked. Through historical records and family accounts, Chin strings together the saga of her family that reads like a compelling drama complete with heroes, villains, inspirational successes, and crushing tragedy. Only instead of a blockbuster movie script these are the real lived experiences of what being Chinese in America under Chinese Exclusion was really like. No sugar coating or downplaying, this book should be required reading in all high school history classes.
