Hong Kong Altar Boy

From Dust Jacket: Imagine being born at dawn on the South China Sea in the hot hold of a smuggler's junk in a lull between storms with only your old grandmother on hand to assist. Your father, the smuggler is on deck watching the weather and the police for his cargo is opium. You have one brother who at the age of six is already spoiled and determined to be the number one boy. there is a chow dog on board, and some chickens, in fact everything your family owns. What are you prospets, presuming you survive? Story takes place in Hong Kong in the years between 1930 and 1945