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Women of the Silk: A Novel
by Gail Tsukiyama
from St. Martin's Griffin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Nice read
  This was a nice read, but I honestly feel that there could be more detail. While some authors do well with a more bare-bones kind of writing, this novel could have used more in the way of detail - it would have been nice to read more about how the silk work was done, for example. Still, this book was a good read, and I am going to buy the sequel.

• Informative, but a little too angelic
  Good book. Terrific research was done in order to write this. I had no idea there was an amazing, gutsy group of women in China that held a strike before women in America were really even accepted in the work place. The novel follows Pei and how her family "gives her" to the silk life and she then grows up in a girls home and works 14 hour days in a silk factory. I would have liked more information about the actual silk work process. All this novel really told me was they start with cocoons and boiling vats... more info

• Wonderfully written and interesting tale..........
  At first blush, I thought this was a sweet, simple summer read, but having finished it I can safely say it is so much more than that. It is deeply moving, wonderfully written, and fascinating in its exploration of women in China in the early 20th century.
  As the reader follows the story of Pei, a young girl born to a poor farming family who is sent to the "big city" to become a silkworker, we learn of the constant struggles and hardships faced by women in Chinese society at this time, where it was much... more info

• A Road Less Traveled....& A Good Read
  Though the townsfolk regarded the silk workers as odd spinsters, warped, and rejected by society, the portraits of Pei and Lin dare to imply that their lives were actually satisfying alternatives to women's traditional roles of wife and mother. In this well done debut novel, Gail Tsukiyama (who is half Chinese and half Japanese) explores women's relationships within the framework of economic and political change in rural China between 1919 and 1938. Women of the Silk offers a rare window into the details of... more info

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