The Audacious Book Club: Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang’s first novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, opens with death and deprivation: new orphans Sam and Lucy, just 11 and 12 years old, are simultaneously forced to face the death of their father, whom they call “Ba,” and their own desperate need for money and food. It was their father, notes Zhang, whose determination to be a prospector led t…