The Golden Immigrant, with the backdrop of stock market, real estate and construction industries, takes on big themes; this brilliantly crafted story uncoils the hopes, fears, aspirations, joys, triumphs and sorrows of an immigrant. Yet, nothing prepares you for what lies at the heart of it---the adaptation to the new culture, the loneliness, the letters from home, the memories of floating boats in the puddles of monsoon rains, the urge to accumulate wealth and the temptations of the permissive society.