Lalu/Polly was a remarkable pioneer woman-a new heroine of the American West-and we can thank McCunn for bringing her to life in such a moving and inspirational way.” -Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, San Francisco Chronicle “Lalu comes to life and transfixes the reader with her story of struggle and survival. This masterfully told biographical novel is the true story of an extraordinary woman’s successful fight for independence and respect in the early American West. The two live out their days on a bountiful farm, a homestead called Polly’s Place in Salmon Canyon, Idaho. When admirer Charlie Bemis wins her in a poker game, he frees her from her enslavement and eventually proposes marriage. In a new country, she is given the name Polly and eventually auctioned to a saloonkeeper. She is sold first to a brothel, then to a slave merchant bound for America. Lalu Nathoy’s father calls his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his “thousand pieces of gold,” yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. A reissue of the classic biographical novel that has sold more than 200,000 copies
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