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Women of the Silk (Women of the Silk #1)
Gail Tsukiyama
★★★★· Published 1991· 278 pages
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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The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)
Gail Tsukiyama
Pei carries on from Women of the Silk, building a new life in Hong Kong through the war years. Quiet and moving.
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Larry McMurtry
Two aging Texas Rangers drive cattle to Montana, and somehow it's 900 pages I never wanted to end. Funny, brutal, and completely alive.
★ 5The Impressionist
Hari Kunzru
A boy of mixed race in colonial India remakes himself over and over to survive. Ambitious and dazzling.