The offspring of interracial marriages usually end up doing a lot of soul searching about who you are and who you want to be. Family sagas are mulled over and dissected, conflicting cultures often force choices that Beaver Cleaver didn't have to deal with.On Gold Mountain is not only a compellingly woven family/cultural history of perserverence and willpower in the face of prejudice, it is also incorporates a very honest appraisal of skeletons that a not quite as forthright narrator as Ms. see would perhaps perfer to bury in a closet.It's a compelling page turner, and well worth reading, a vivid testimonial of a truly American family.