The Girls of Good Fortune: A Novel

A Washington Post Must-Read BookBub's Best Historical Fiction of 2025 The New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland's dark history in this gripping novel of love lore and betrayal.  She came from a lineage known for good fortune…by those who don't know the whole story.  Oregon 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of Portland's notorious Shanghai Tunnels a woman awakens in an underground cell drugged and disguised. Celia soon realizes she's a ""shanghaied"" victim on the verge of being shipped off as forced labor leaving behind those she loves most. Although well accustomed to adapting for survival—being half-Chinese passing as white during an era fraught with anti-Chinese sentiment—she fears that far more than her own fate hangs in the balance. As she pieces together