Episode 39 - Ink & Paper

I'm going to start with Lisa See, her new The Daughters of the Sun and Moon.

This book is set on two timelines, primarily in 1870 and then looking back from 1926.

And it is the story primarily of three Chinese women.

Mm-hmm.

One of them is the wife of a doctor, and she's in a pretty good situation.

And then two of them...

In

America?

This is primarily set in Los Angeles.

Right, right,

okay.

Which is not Los Angeles.

Los Angeles was some shacks and shanties and not what it became

at

all.

And two women are coming over on the same boat.

One of them is marrying a man who already has several wives, but he needs a younger wife.

Okay.

And the other one thinks she is going on an adventure, and she quickly becomes a woman who puts her legs in the air.

The way they describe it.

The way they describe it.

This is not a happy book.

But it ultimately does contain a lot of positive strength.

This is a story of, A, women in general and, B, Chinese women.

Chinese women were nothing.