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FEB 2021 Book Club: "Gum Moon" by Jeffrey L. Staley

Tue, Feb 09

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Online Zoom Meeting

Gum Moon is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper.

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FEB 2021 Book Club: "Gum Moon" by Jeffrey L. Staley
FEB 2021 Book Club: "Gum Moon" by Jeffrey L. Staley

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Feb 09, 2021, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EST

Online Zoom Meeting

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Based upon events in the life of the author's wife's grandmother, Gum Moon (Cantonese for "Gold Door" or "Golden Gate") is an award-winning novel in Writer's Digest's 2019 self-published competition. An Honorable Mention in the Mainstream/Literary Fiction category, and an "Education for Mission" 2021-2022 Reading Program selection by United Methodist Women, Gum Moon is the remarkable coming of age story of a Chinese-American girl, Mei Chun Lai, who is sold in 1898 at the age of three to a cruel brothel keeper. A sympathetic prostitute befriends Chun, but during a plague quarantine, Chun is thrust into a bewildering new world when she is rescued by a friend of Donaldina Cameron and placed in a Home for abused and trafficked girls. The Home is destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, but Chun (aka "Maud") survives. In an attempt to raise funds to rebuild the Home, Maud and a…

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