Author Event: Heather B. Moore & Allison Hong Merrill – Spanish Fork, UT

Author Event: Heather B. Moore & Allison Hong Merrill – Spanish Fork, UT

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Spanish Fork, UT. Happening on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at Poppy Books & Gifts. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Celebrate Chinese New Year with the Authors of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

Tickets are FREE. Please reserve your seat, as seating is limited, and to help us track attendance.

Poppy Books is delighted to host authors Hong Merrill and Allison for a special Chinese New Year event on January 29, 2025!

Join us for an engaging presentation featuring the co-authors, Heather B. Moore & Allison Hong Merrill as they present: The Paper Daughters of Chinatown: Adapted for Young Readers.

Hong and Allison will share insights into Chinese New Year traditions, exploring their significance and the rich cultural history behind them. Plus, attendees will enjoy a hands-on craft session where they’ll learn how to make beautiful Chinese lanterns!

About the book:

Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1890s.

When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she’ll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother’s opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is put on a ship headed for San Francisco, known among the Chinese as Gold Mountain. When she arrives, she is forced to go by the new name listed on her paper documents: Tien Fu Wu.

Her new life as a servant at a gambling den is hard. She is told to stay hidden, to stay silent, and to perform an endless list of chores, or else she will be punished. Tien Fu thinks her life couldn’t get any worse, until she is sold again to an abusive shopkeeper and tasked to care for a young boy. If she is to survive, Tien Fu must persevere, and learn who to trust.

When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco to teach sewing at a mission home for orphaned Asian girls, she meets Tien Fu, who is willful, defiant, and unwilling to trust anyone. Dolly quickly learns that all the girls at the home were freed from lives of servitude and maltreatment. Dolly immediately joins the group of women dedicated to saving more of these “paper daughters” because some in authority have turned a blind eye to the situation.

Despite many challenges, Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they mentor and help those in the mission home and work to win the freedom of thousands of immigrant women and girls.

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Event ID - 1129193972569

Event Venue - Poppy Books & Gifts

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Event City - Spanish Fork

Event State - UT

 

Date And Time

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 @ 07:00 PM (MST)
 

Venue

Poppy Books & Gifts
 

Location

56 West 200 N, Spanish Fork, UT 84660
 

Event Category

Utah

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