Lotus land
Romance, United States travel and geography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
A historical family saga of three outcasts who seek refuge in the growing city of Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century. There is Sung Wing On, who flees a plague in her native China, Maria Magdalena Ortiz, expelled from… her family's Mexican ranch after an affair with an American, and Clifford Creighton, a Baltimore aristocrat plunged into poverty after a family tragedy. Their fates intertwine as they each journey to California, hoping for a new life at a time when Southern California promised limitless opportunity