Lord, Bette

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Three Chinese youngsters, Steel Hope, his bookmate Mountain Pine, and Firecrackers, a gravekeeper's daughter, vow to remain true to each other and their country--a promise that becomes impossible to keep as war, upheaval, and personal tragedies intrude.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

A seventeen-year-old Chinese girl, Sansan, leaves Tiantsin, China for America to be reunited with her parents after being separated from them for sixteen years.