AWW21 How Much of These Hills is Gold? - C Pam Zhang
Compared by The New York Times to Faulkner\u2019s As I Lay Dying and Steinbeck\u2019s mighty The Grapes of Wrath, C Pam Zhang\u2019s How Much of These Hills Is Gold? brilliantly reimagines both the American West and the Classic American Western. Longlisted for the Booker, it tells of Chinese American orphans Lucy and Sam\u2019s quest through the Californian hills during the Gold Rush as they seek to bury the body of their father in a homeland that constantly tells them \u201cthis land is not your land.\u201d
\nChaired by Mirandi Riwoe