"The Lucky Ones" uncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. Mae Ngai paints a fascinating picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans. Tape family history ill...(展开全部)

If you're Irish American or African American or Eastern European Jewish American, there's a rich literature to give you a sense of your family's arrival-in-America story. Until now, that hasn't been the case for Chinese Americans. From noted historian Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones uncovers the three-generational saga of the Tape family. It's a sweeping story centered on patriarch J...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up...(展开全部)

伊丽莎·格里斯沃尔德（Eliza Griswold），1973年生，《纽约客》顶级撰稿人。 1995年，毕业于普林斯顿大学。 2019年，凭借《压裂的底层》获得美国纪实最高荣誉普利策非虚构奖。 还曾获J. 安东尼·卢卡斯图书奖、美国笔会诗歌翻译奖、罗马奖。目前与丈夫以及儿子住在纽约，是纽约大学的驻校作家。 曾小楚，自由译者，翻译方向为人文社科、历史、文学。已翻译的作品有《娜塔莎之舞》《明治天皇》《坂本龙马与明治维新》等。

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up...(展开全部)

In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destin...(展开全部)

In his 14th book, bestselling author Nicholas Sparks tells the unforgettable story of a man whose brushes with death lead him to the love of his life. Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny....(展开全部)

乔治娅·亨特（Georgia Hunter, 1978— ） 美国作家，出自一个在“二战”大屠杀中幸存的犹太家庭。自幼热爱写作，1994年，高中生的她得知外祖父那一代在“二战”中的经历，2000年与库尔茨大家族聚会，2008年开始深入研究和挖掘家族故事，历经十数年写成《我们是幸运的》。这是作者的长篇小说处女作。目前她与丈夫、儿子生活在康涅狄格州。 译者简介： 易真 自由译者，译有《心灵之歌》《天外来客》《我们是幸运的》、《归来记》（即将出版）等。

The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but arguably the most important invention of all was Thomas Edison’s incandescent lightbulb. Unveiled in his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory in 1879, the lightbulb overwhelmed the American public with the sense of the birth of a new age. More than any other invention, the electric light marked th...(展开全部)