Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

I listened to the audiobook of this lush historical survival tale. Daiyu is cast to the sky and sea as her parents are imprisoned in China and she is sent by her grandmother far from her home. in the city she is kidnapped and sent to San Fransisco to work in a brothel. Almost broken she finds a way out and travels to Idaho until finally finding a bit of a home working for kindly Chinese grocers. Still disguised as a boy she learns to let her guard down a bit but continues to make enough to return home to China and find her family. Daiyu is haunted by trauma, by the ghost of her namesake who lives inside her and not being able to fully trust anyone. A cruel reminder of racial hatred and the atrocities inflicted on immigrants in this country in the 1800's and still today in some places. When being a Chinese man is a bit less dangerous than being a woman, Chinese or not it won't take much for Daiyu's luck to run out. Weaving Chinese folklore and language into gut wrenching human emotion with the correct pronunciation made listening to this a true delight.  4 stars from this Austin native!