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William Morrow
January 2017
On Sale: January 10, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 0062388959
EAN: 9780062388957
Kindle: B01EFLNZG0
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Historical | Women's Fiction Historical
From the author of Three Souls comes a vividly
imagined and haunting new novel set in early 20th century
Shanghai—a story of friendship, heartbreak, and history that
follows a young Eurasian orphan’s search for her long-lost
mother. That night I dreamed that I had wandered out to Dragon
Springs Road all on my own, when a dreadful knowledge seized
me that my mother had gone away never to return . . . In 1908, Jialing is only seven years old when she is
abandoned in the courtyard of a once-lavish estate near
Shanghai. Jialing is zazhong—Eurasian—and faces a
lifetime of contempt from both Chinese and Europeans.
Without her mother’s protection, she can survive only if the
estate’s new owners, the Yang family, agree to take her in. Jialing finds allies in Anjuin, the eldest Yang daughter,
and Fox, an animal spirit who has lived in the haunted
courtyard for centuries. But Jialing’s life as the Yangs’
bondservant changes unexpectedly when she befriends a young
English girl who then mysteriously vanishes. Always hopeful of finding her long-lost mother, Jialing
grows into womanhood during the tumultuous early years of
the Chinese republic, guided by Fox and by her own strength
of spirit, away from the shadows of her past. But she finds
herself drawn into a murder at the periphery of political
intrigue, a relationship that jeopardizes her friendship
with Anjuin and a forbidden affair that brings danger to the
man she loves.
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