White Lotus Author:John Hersey "Hersey's finest novel-likely to haunt you for the rest of your days..A huge, great achievement, a splended human document, an unforgettable experience" Boston Sunday Herald — The time was the twentieth century. The place was Arizona. She was a pretty fifteen-year-old white girl, deep in her childish dreams, when they came for her in the night.... more » Still in her pj's, they marched her with all the other men and women of the town to the sea. Then they herded her into the hold of a ship bound for China to live out the rest of her life as a slave, raped, humilated and unspeakably degraded.« less