Wooden Fish SongsWooden fish songs were the laments sung by Chinese women left behind by husbands, sons, and brothers who, in the nineteenth century, sailed to America in quest of the good life and found instead years of indentured servitude and racial discrimination. This novel focuses on Lue Gim Gong, a real life Chinese pioneer, who seized the opportunity to go to Americas Gold Mountain. The story of his attempt to assimilate the new culture, his few successes and