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The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)
Gail Tsukiyama
★★★★· Published 1999· 288 pages
Pei carries on from Women of the Silk, building a new life in Hong Kong through the war years. Quiet and moving.
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Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1)
Gail Tsukiyama
Girls in a Chinese silk factory who take vows never to marry and build a fierce sisterhood instead. Absorbing and tender.
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Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis can do more in two sentences than most writers manage in twenty pages. Tiny, strange, razor-sharp stories.
★ 5The Georges' wife
Elizabeth Jolley
The last of Elizabeth Jolley's Vera Wright trilogy, about a young woman who becomes maid to one sibling and mistress to another. Spare, tender, and quietly devastating — it swept the Australian book prizes for a reason.