At seventeen, a penniless, ambitious Canadian girl of mixed English and Chinese parentage sets out alone to make her way, first in Jamaica and then in Richmond and Chicago, as a stenographer, reporter and would-be writer. She meets men who want to help her and men who want something else. Published anonymously in 1915, it is Winnifred Eaton’s account of her own early years.
A lively, revealing self-portrait by one of the first writers of Asian descent to find a mass audience in North America. Download the free EPUB.