Love and Other Consolation Prizes

I just read Jamie Ford's most recent book, Love and Other Consolation Prizes for my book group and I absolutely adored it.  Bringing together the world's fair along with the immigration of Asians in the early 1900's, this book has history, love and so much more.  Ernest Young, the book's protagonist is a young boy when we meet him.  He has just come to American by boat and has a decent life with Mrs. Irving.  Things change for him when Mrs. Irving brings him to the AYP (Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific) World's Fair to be sold to the highest bidder.  And you thought slavery only happened to African Americans--not true.