Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
Lily is haunted by memories-of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan ...show more
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Amazing. Reading this made me feel so profoundly grateful to be a woman in present-day America--big feet and all! The women in this story seem not to have experienced any true happiness at all, only lesser degrees of misery and suffering. I believe they loved deeply but could never fully admit it, even to themselves. That seems to me to be the underlying reason for the grave misunderstanding between Lily and Snow Flower. The women were so bound b...read more
Lisa See always writes a great story! This was a really enjoyable read and I learned a lot about old Chinese women’s culture. Even though I have read of the foot binding in the past and knew what to expect, it was still hard to read...luckily it’s in the first part of the book and is brief, but very important to the story.
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