{"product_id":"the-celestials-isbn-9781935639558","title":"The Celestials","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Celestials\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical novel of immigration, multiculturalism, labor, community and exclusion, alienation and reinvention, and our country's peculiar history and relationship with all those things. It's about our shared sense that we're all aliens of some kind—at home in no place.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn June of 1870, seventy-five Chinese laborers arrived in North Adams, Massachusetts, to work for Calvin Sampson, one of the biggest industrialists in that busy factory town. Except for the foreman, the Chinese didn’t speak English. They didn’t know they were strikebreakers. The eldest of them was twenty-two. Combining historical and fictional elements, \u003ci\u003eThe Celestials\u003c\/i\u003e beautifully reimagines the story of Sampson’s “Chinese experiment” and the effect of the newcomers’ threatening and exotic presence on the New England locals. When Sampson’s wife, Julia, gives birth to a mixed-race baby, the infant becomes a lightning rod for the novel’s conflicts concerning identity, alienation, and exile.\u003cb\u003eKaren Shepard\u003c\/b\u003e is a Chinese-American born and raised in New York City. She is the author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eAn Empire of Women, The Bad Boy’s Wife, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Don’t I Know You? \u003c\/i\u003eHer short fiction has been published in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic Monthly, Tin House, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and her nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMore, Self, USA Today,\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches writing and literature at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she lives.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233640722661,"sku":"NP9781935639558","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781935639558.jpg?v=1767738641","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-celestials-isbn-9781935639558","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}