Description
Harvest of Hunger is the first book in a trilogy recounting the saga of four generations of an American family serving as missionaries and cultural ambassadors in China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Though a certain amount of literary license has been used in developing the narratives, they do track closely actual historical events and experiences of actual people. This book takes up the story of the character, Ross Sutherland, who was the second generation of his family to live and work in China, as he and his family address the challenges of the North China famine of 1920-21. The second book in the series, Fortune’s Retrieval, recounts the struggles Ross’s children, Harriet and Alvin, endure in war-torn China from 1937 to 1945. The third book, Pursuing Shadows, brings the family’s involvement with China up to contemporary times as Ross’s grandson, Lawson Sutherland, sets out for China in the 1980s to look for his family legacy and history. May these books entertain, educate, and illuminate Chinese and American humanity in ways suggesting that fundamentally Chinese and Americans can find much common ground in this modern