Amy Tan
Author
Formats
Description
Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who has honed her ability to become any man's fantasy since her start as a "Virgin Courtesan" at the age of twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves effortlessly between the East and the West. But her talents belie her private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for a home in the world. Abandoned by her mother, Lucia, and uncertain...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village the story is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, it's deepest wounds, it's most profound hopes. Over the course of one fog-shrouded year, between one season of falling stars and the next, mother and daughter find what they share in their bones through heredity, history, and inexpressible qualities of love.