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Daughter of Fortune
First published 1999
Valparaíso, 1843. Eliza Sommers has been raised inside the protected British household of her adoptive family, but her attachment to the impoverished Joaquín Andieta draws her beyond the expectations imposed on a respectable young woman. When Joaquín leaves Chile for the California goldfields, Eliza secretly follows him.
Aided by the Chinese physician Tao Chi’en, she crosses a rapidly changing frontier of miners, traders, immigrants and fugitives. Her search for Joaquín gradually becomes a search for independence, linking nineteenth-century Chile to the California Gold Rush while showing how migration can loosen family, class and gender constraints.
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