AWW21 How Much of These Hills is Gold? - C Pam Zhang

Compared by The New York Times to Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and
Steinbeck’s mighty The Grapes of Wrath, C Pam Zhang’s How Much of
These Hills Is Gold? brilliantly reimagines both the American
West and the Classic American Western. Longlisted for the Booker,
it tells of Chinese American orphans Lucy and Sam’s quest through
the Californian hills during the Gold Rush as they seek to bury
the body of their father in a homeland that constantly tells them
“this land is not your land.”


Chaired by Mirandi Riwoe