![]() Back in 1897 San Francisco, meanwhile, Violet's mother, Lucia, chooses a disastrous course as a sixteen-year-old, when her infatuation with a Chinese painter compels her to leave her home for Shanghai. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West. ![]() Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. In her first novel in eight years, The Valley of Amazement ( HarperCollins 2013), Amy Tan has woven an evocative narrative about the profound connections between mothers and daughters, a theme that returns readers to the territory of Tan's breakout novel The Joy Luck Club. (Rick Smolan/Against All Odds Productions) ![]() "The Valley of Amazement" (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) by Amy Tan (R). ![]()
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