![]() But even though they weren’t counted, the earthquake had a silver lining for Chinese Americans. Chinese weren’t counted in the death toll for the earthquake, which generally reflected society’s antipathy toward the Chinese at that time. So yes, family is the reason I chose the setting for this particular novel. My mother is a native San Franciscan and my Dad immigrated to San Francisco from China in the 1950’s. Why did you choose the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire as the focus of the novel? Do you have a family connection to the story? Stacey has stopped in for an interview, and if you’d like to know more, please add your questions to the comments. Yesterday I reviewed Stacey Lee’s new historical novel, Outrun the Moon, featuring an independent and ambitious 15-year-old Chinese American girl who talks her way into an exclusive girls’ boarding school in San Francisco in 1906, only to be cut off from the rest of her family and fighting for survival during that city’s devastating earthquake and fire. ![]()
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