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Sarah Canary
Published 1991 by Henry Holt and Company · 290 pages
Nebula · 1993
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2 award entries · 2 books · 0 wins · 1993–2014
Synopsis
In 1873 Washington Territory, a mysterious woman who speaks no known language stumbles into a Chinese railroad workers' camp. A Chinese laborer named Chin Ah Kin follows her on a picaresque journey through the Pacific Northwest, encountering asylum inmates, suffragettes, and sideshow operators in a story that blurs the line between literary fiction and science fiction.
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