A recasting of American history through the lives of Chinese Americans, reimagining the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.
...a beautifully constructed novel ... Davies does a masterful job tying the strands together in the novel's final section ... The Fortunes is a stunning look at what it means to be Chinese, what it means to be American, and what it means to be a person navigating the strands of identity, the things that made us who we are, whoever that is.
Though the stories can stand on their own, recurring motifs, details, and historical figures thread through the chapters, weaving a poignant, intricately patterned brocade of the Chinese-American experience ... His genius is not in the aggregation, but in the canny crafting of an embarrassment of racist riches into a resplendent, inventive, heartbreaking chronicle of the Chinese-American experience.
