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Daughters of the Sun and Moon
by Lisa See
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Los Angeles, 1870. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, arrives for an arranged marriage; Petal has been sold into servitude by her impoverished family; and Moon, the educated wife of a traditional physician, lives with the consequences of a failed foot binding. Their different routes from Qing China bring them into a small but divided Chinese community exposed to racial hostility, legal inequality and exploitation.
When conflict among rival Chinese factions is used to inflame wider prejudice, a white and Latino mob attacks Chinatown in the massacre of 1871. Dove, Petal and Moon are brought together by the violence and its aftermath, and each must decide what freedom, justice and loyalty can mean in a town that denies them protection. The novel places women’s friendship at the centre of early Chinese settlement in post-Civil-War California.
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