The Teahouse Fire
About this book
The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Told through the enchanting and unforgettable voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this is "a magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Subjects
- americans
- collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction, sagas
- japanese tea ceremony
- japan, fiction
- lambda literary awards
- lambda literary award winner
- lgbtq novels
- literature
- manners and customs
- social life and customs
- stonewall book awards
- young women, fiction