\u201cMercy\u2019s narrative is flecked with witty puns, pithy wisdom from her fortune-telling mother, aphorisms from her favorite business book, and her obsession with bad-luck number four, all of which provide meaningful insight into both her character and her culture. While slipping in plenty of meaty historical context, particularly about the discrimination facing Chinese immigrants at the time, Lee tells a resoundingly warmhearted story about community arising amidst earth-shattering disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty of Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare\u2019s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare\u2019s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong\u2014until disaster strikes.<\/p>\n
On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy\u2019s home and school. Now she\u2019s forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. Though fires might rage, and the city may be in shambles, Mercy can\u2019t sit by while they wait for the army to bring help\u2014she still has the \u201cbossy\u201d cheeks that mark her as someone who gets things done. But what can one teenage girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[24],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n