In San Francisco from 1903 to 1908, teenager Jessie Wainwright determines to reach her goal of becoming a doctor while also trying to care for the illegitimate child of a liaison between her father and their Chinese maid.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: sex role, fiction, fathers and daughters, sisters, conduct of life, chinese americans, san francisco (calif.), history, 20th century, fiction