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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A SAD CHAPTER IN OUR HISTORY,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America (Hardcover)
I am so sorry to see that this title is out of print . . . I bought it in a small bookshop a few years ago, and it has haunted me ever since. It is about the Chinese in California's Central Valley who developed and lived in their own town: Locke. As the work subsided and the next generation grew up, they moved away one by one, until by now it is almost a ghost town. A few of the original Chinese founders remain, however, and the author has interviewed them as well as others he has tracked down. So, the book is a compilation of autobiographical sketches by the day laborers who were, if nothing else, most certainly over-worked and under-paid. As an oral history, it is unsurpassed in honor, honesty and sweat of the brow. Each interview is accompanied by photos; some are "then and now", and are most interesting! I hope this returns to print soon so we can all know the hard work and injustices that so many of our minorities lived with.
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Bitter Melon: Stories from the Last Rural Chinese Town in America by Jeff Gillenkirk (Hardcover - Oct. 1987)
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