04115cam a2200925 4500 521627865 TxAuBib 20210905120000.0 ||||||s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588364746 1588364747 B000FCK71U Amazon de403c5c-3217-42a2-ba8b-74af8638dcb6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 163637 163637 163637 69113 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib See, Lisa. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2005. family. relationships. Asia. 21st century. Friendship. literary fiction. Adult. Chinese Culture. Historical. romance. childbirth. language. culture. contemporary fiction. Japan. Writing. 19th Century. Female friendship. marriage. love. Coming of age. American. Asian. women. China. Historical Fiction. Women's Fiction. Historical Romance. betrayal. Contemporary. Married women. multicultural. History. arranged marriage. friends. literature. secrecy. chinese women. historical novels. chinese fiction. lisa see. footbinding. lisa see books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3793kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b>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.</b><br /> <br /> In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for communication: nu shu (“women’s writing”). Some girls were paired with laotongs, “old sames,” in emotional matches that lasted throughout their lives. They painted letters on fans, embroidered messages on handkerchiefs, and composed stories, thereby reaching out of their isolation to share their hopes, dreams, and accomplishments.<br /> <br /> With the arrival of a silk fan on which Snow Flower has composed for Lily a poem of introduction in nu shu, their friendship is sealed and they become “old sames” at the tender age... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:20:50. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/DE4/03C/5C/SnowFlowerandtheSecretFanANovel9781588364746.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=DE403C5C-3217-42A2-BA8B-74AF8638DCB6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMML