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SUMMARY:Breakfast Book Club
LOCATION:Eola Road Branch\nEola Road Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join the Breakfast Book Club for our April meeting through Zoo
 m! We'll be discussing The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moor
 e.\n\nPlease email yiota@aurorapubliclibrary.org for link.  .\nhttps://aur
 ora.libnet.info/event/4911773
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Reserve your copy and pick up from the lib
 rary!</p>\n<p>Search our catalog at <a href="https://aurorapubliclibrary.o
 rg/">https://aurorapubliclibrary.org/</a></p>\n<p>OR</p>\n<p>eBook version
  of the book can be downloaded through Hoopla with your library card below
 :</p>\n<p><a href="https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13376156">https://w
 ww.hoopladigital.com/title/13376156</a></p>\n<p>Summary:</p>\n<p>Based on 
 true events\, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a
  largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes.</
 p>\n<p>In the late nineteenth century\, San Francisco is a booming city wi
 th a dark side\, one where a powerful underground organization-the crimina
 l tong-buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. T
 hese "paper daughters\," so called because fake documents gain them entry 
 to America but leave them without legal identity\, generally have no recou
 rse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope 
 and help.</p>\n<p>Told in alternating chapters\, this rich narrative follo
 ws the stories of young Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron\, who works in the missi
 on home\, and Mei Lien\, a "paper daughter" who thinks she is coming to Am
 erica for an arranged marriage but instead is sold into a life of shame an
 d despair.</p>\n<p>Dolly\, a real-life pioneering advocate for social just
 ice\, bravely fights corrupt officials and violent gangs\, helping to win 
 freedom for thousands of Chinese women. Mei Lien endures heartbreak and be
 trayal in her search for hope\, belonging\, and love. Their stories merge 
 in this gripping account of the courage and determination that helped to s
 hape a new course of women's history in America.</p>\nhttps://aurora.libne
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