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Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn, 14, expects to join her mother on a voyage to San Francisco, but the treachery of a supposed friend separates them, and the boat leaves without her, stranding her as an orphan in China. Much-acclaimed author Tan (The Joy Luck Club) is publishing her first novel in eight years, an epic, as the publisher calls it, that could be termed "a courtesan's handbook." It is also the wrenching, intertwined stories of th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More