laundry

The piece was toward the bottom of the page, tucked away like dirty laundry.

Around each twist and turn, there’s a room solely for holiday wear, a walk-in devoted to fur coats, and several hallways lined with laundry baskets of purses and dress shoes waiting to be picked through.

In the remote towns of rural northwest California, Chinese immigrants toiled in redwood logging camps, laundries and restaurants.

"I managed to avoid anything particularly catastrophic... although my laundry did get blown up one time," she says.

Children play in between the temporary corrugated iron shelters where women are also doing laundry when we visit.