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Author	Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-
Title	The snakehead : an epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream / Patrick Radden Keefe.
Publication Info.	New York : Doubleday, c2009.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	325.2 K	ON SEARCH
Stack 3	325.2 K	IN LIBRARY

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xiv, 414 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-404) and index.
Contents	Pilgrims -- Leaving Fujian -- Eighteen-thousand-dollar woman -- Dai Lo of the Fuk Ching -- Swiftwater -- Year of the snake -- Mombasa -- The phantom ship -- The Teaneck massacre -- Mutiny in the Atlantic -- A well-founded fear -- The fat man -- Freedom birds -- The goldfish and the Great Wall -- Parole -- Snakeheads international -- Catching Lilly Zhang -- The mother of all Snakeheads.
Subject	Human trafficking -- United States.
Local Subject	Undocumented immigrants -- United States.
Subject	Human smuggling -- United States.
	Chinese -- United States.
	United States -- Emigration and immigration.
	Fujian Sheng (China) -- Emigration and immigration.
	Chinatown (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
	Golden Venture (Ship)
Added Title	Epic tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream
	Tale of the Chinatown underworld and the American dream
ISBN	9780385521307 (hc)
	0385521308 (hc)

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