NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD * A "haunting, magical, and absolutely impossible to forget" (The Boston Globe) novel about the unique friendship between two women in nineteenth-century China, from the acclaimed author of Shanghai Girls
"A marvel of imagination . . . so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end."-Amy Tan, author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"[A] marvelous narrative . . . a timeless portrait of a...
"A marvel of imagination . . . so mesmerizing the pages float away and the story remains clearly before us from beginning to end."-Amy Tan, author of The Backyard Bird Chronicles
"[A] marvelous narrative . . . a timeless portrait of a...






















