I recently read, The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery. The tale is set in late nineteenth century Japan and plunges deeply into the smoky brew of an entangled relationship between the daughter of a Japanese Tea Master and a French orphan seeking asylum from a life as a convent domestic. Like the roots of a plum tree the two girls grow up twisted around each other in an ambiguous context of love and cultural dissonance. Japan edges towards modernism as the characters seek identity and spiritual meaning, in a tragic denouement guaranteed to keep the pages turning.
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