Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
ISBN: 9780747583004
Release Date: 02 Jan 2007
Average rating:   (read by 76 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.

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meadowmist
Rated it   1 months ago
Good book about the culture...a little slow at times, but interesting. The foot binding was a little too much...I do believe I read that has been outlawed at this time.

JenAg
Rated it   3 months ago
This was a good read not only because of the character development but it taught you about 19th century China culture.

hruch
Rated it   4 months ago
I read this author's other book Peony in Love, and hoped this one would be as good. The chemistry wasn't there. It started well, but sagged in the middle pretty bad.

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