"With a new epilogue by the author"--Page 4 of cover

The wonder time, 1866-71 -- Exclusion, 1872-93 -- Love, 1894-97 -- Lo sang, 1897-1902 -- Immigration, 1902-13 -- Family days, 1914-18 -- The home village, 1919-20 -- Playboys, 1920-24 -- The kidnapping, 1925-28 -- Depression, 1929-34 -- Memories: Tyrus tells his story -- Dragon's Den, 1934-35 -- Snapshots, 1936-38 -- Anna May speaks (from the grave) -- Second chances, 1939-41 -- The mission family gets a daughter-in-law, 1942-45 -- Hollow Bamboo, 1946-47 -- Fire, 1947-50 -- Another marriage, 1951-57 -- Family means everything, 1957-95 -- The home village II, Spring 1991

Chronicles the experiences of a Chinese-American family in California, beginning with the immigration of the author's great-great-grandfather in the late 1800s

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press,1995 and Vintage Books, 1996