Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated in 1865 from Kaiping, China, to San Francisco, where he adopted the Western name "Ford," thus confusing countless generations. Ford is an award-winning short-story writer, an alumnus of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and a survivor of Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. Having grown up near Seattle's Chinatown, he now lives in Montana with his wife and children.
Visit him at http://www.jamieford.com/
I think that in chapters 2-4, young Henry was treated very meanly because on the first day of school he got beat up for his lunch and has been forced to give his lunch to Sheldon, a jazz player, for a nickel every day and has to steal the lunch lady's lunch. Also, I think that Henry shouldn't have to serve lunch to the white kids at school just because he's Chinese and on scholarship. I think if you get a scholarship, you should get it because you deserve it, not because the school could use somebody to serve lunch. abgolfer
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