After exploring the Welsh side of his ancestry in his debut 2007 novel “The Welsh Girl,” Peter Ho Davies felt that it was only right to explore his Chinese half. On Sept. 6, the United Kingdom-born ...

'The Fortunes of Jaded Women' cover sleeve, Carolyn Huynh, Alan Yang and Bekkah Brunstetter lsea Lane/Ramona Rosales/Heather Gershonowitz EXCLUSIVE: Carolyn Huynh‘s debut novel, The Fortunes of Jaded ...

This debut novel is set to be released Sept. 6. "The Fortunes of Jaded Women," the debut novel from author Carolyn Huynh, is our "Good Morning America" Book Club pick for September. Huynh's debut ...

When California magnate Charles Crocker built the westernmost leg of the transcontinental railroad, not enough white laborers signed on for the grueling, dangerous work of blasting mountains and ...

Peter Ho Davies’ debut novel, “The Welsh Girl,” was a quiet, deep gem that explored the lives of three characters in Wales during World War II. It’s an engrossing and elegant book about wartime ...

There's a moment in Peter Ho Davies' novel The Fortunes in which a Chinese immigrant to America, a teenage boy named Ling, experiences a painful epiphany. He's been working as a valet to Charles ...

Peter Ho Davies, the British novelist of Welsh and Chinese descent, tackles Chinese-American history in his bold, inventive novel The Fortunes, where most of the characters are anything but fortunate.

The adjective “panoramic” barely does justice to a 700-page survey of Africa that starts with the pharaohs and ends with U.N.-Habitat population projections for 2050. Taking exploitation of the ...