1909: At the World's Fair a half-Chinese boy is raffled off as a prize. Working in Seattle's famed Red Light District, he falls in love with Maisie, the daughter of a madam, and Fahn, a Japanese maid sold into servitude. In 1962 he looks back on the past and the memories he made with his wife, while his daughter begins to unravel their tragic past.
A new novel from the author of bestselling "Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter & Sweet", this is set in Seattle and moves between 1909 and 1962, as Ernest looks back on the past and the memories of being raffled off as a prize as the World's Fair.