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From the best-selling author of Hotel on the Part of Bitter and Nice comes a powerful novel, inspired by a genuine story, in regards to a youngster whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair. For 12-year-old Ernest Young, a charity college student at a boarding university, the opportunity to go to the World's Fair feels like something special. But only one time he's there, amid the exotic exhibits, fireworks, and Ferris rims, does he find that he is the main one who is actually the reward. The half-Chinese orphan is astounded to learn he will be raffled off - a wholesome youngster "to a good home". The winning solution is one of the flamboyant madam of your high-class brothel, famous for educating her girls. There, Ernest becomes the new houseboy and befriends Maisie, the madam's precocious little girl, and a daring scullery maid known as Fahn. Their friendship and devotion form the first real family Ernest has ever before known - and against all possibilities, this new wearing life provides him the sense of home he's always desired. But as the grande dame succumbs for an occupational hazard and their world of finery begins to crumble, all three must grapple with desire, ambition, and first love. Fifty years later, in the darkness of Seattle's second World's Fair, Ernest struggles to help his ailing better half reconcile who she was previously with who she wanted to be while trying to keep family secrets hidden from other grown-up daughters. Against a abundant backdrop of post-Victorian vice, suffrage, and special event, Love as well as other Consolation Prizes is an enchanting tale about innocence and devotion - in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale.
