One of the best I've read this year!

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	• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel Lisa See Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 565 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great book!

This was a book club pick for me. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I loved learning about the lifestyle and traditions of China in the 1800-1900's. It is a sad, touching, beautifally written story.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

This is one of the best books I've read in years. A truly different kind of story of a different place and time than I knew much about. It was engaging and unforgettable!

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One of the best I've read this year!

Snow Flower & the Secret Fan was chosen by my book club and I am glad for this, otherwise I might have missed out on this treasure. This is a beautifully written book about the strength of women during a period of time that they were believed to be as weak or important as a family pet nowadays. Nor were they treated much better! However, this novel does a fabulous job at illustrating that while the Chinese society and the men who ruled it thought this, there was nothing farther from the truth!

Mainly this book is about a life-long friendship between two women who are of different classes. But things are not always as they seem. Nor is life ever as simple as you'd wish. This novel spans these women and their families lifetimes. There is tragedy and mixed with carefree days; anguish mixed with preserverance and loyalty mingling with betrayal.

Overall this was an amazing novel, one that I will not soon forget. I learned many things about Chinese culture and footbinding that I did not know. This is one of the best books I've read this year-top 5- and I will soon be reading more of Lisa See's books!

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In nineteenth-century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, ?old same,? in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The laotong, Snow Flower, introduces herself by sending Lily a silk fan on which she?s painted a poem in nu shu, a unique language that Chinese women created in order to communicate in secret, away from the influence of men. As the years pass, Lily and Snow Flower send messages on fans, compose stories on handkerchiefs, reaching out of isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments. Together, they endure the agony of foot-binding, and reflect upon their arranged marriages, shared loneliness, and the joys and tragedies of motherhood. The two find solace, developing a bond that keeps their spirits alive. But when a misunderstanding arises, their deep friendship suddenly threatens to tear apart.

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