Welcome to the Zillennials Book Club! This month Kaylee and Lian are discussing How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang. This is the first western novel discussed on the podcast and Kaylee and Lian loved it! This novel was Kaylee's first western and the first western that Lian liked. The story, a twist on a typical western novel, follows Lucy and Sam, two siblings born in the American West to parents with Chinese ancestry. The novel begins after the death of Ba, and follows Lucy and Sam over five or so years as they find their way as orphans in the American west during the time of the gold rush. We'll cover our overall reactions to the book, what we thought of the different characters and our feelings on how the author ended the novel. We strongly recommend this book!

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How Much of These Hills Is Gold Reader's Guide (Penguin Randomhouse)

In 'How Much of These Hills is Gold,' This Land is Not Your Land by Annalisa Quinn (NPR)

A Haunting Debut Novel Brings New Faces to the Myth of the American West - by Martha Southgate (NYT)

How a Chinese-American Novelist Wrote Herself into the Wild West by Concepción de León 

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