A powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle's epic 1909 World's Fair.

A half-Chinese orphan whose mother sacrificed everything to give him a better chance is raffled off as a prize at Seattle's 1909 World's Fair, only to land in the ownership of the madam of a notorious brothel where he finds friendship and opportunities, in a story based on true events.

Ernest Young, a charity student at a boarding school, gets to go to the World's Fair. But once he's there he discovers that he will be raffled off--a healthy boy "to a good home."