Karen Joy Fowler's 1991 novel Sarah Canary is set, for the most part, in rainy Washington state in the late 1800s where men are violent, women are sexual objects, and brown people and the mentally ill are always in danger. The tale is told through the perceptions of the Chinese railway worker Chin Ah Kin, his accidental accomplice B.J., and a disembodied voice of authority … [Read more...] about Sarah Canary