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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel

Lisa See

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel Lisa See "I chose to read "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," because I am a high school teacher and one of my student's parents recommended it to me. This book is about a girl named Lilly and she's living in China in the 19th Century. And she, when she's little her family goes to a matchmaker as all families do and they tell her that she's going to be special and that she gets to have a best friend, essentially. So, she develops this special best friend relationship with this other girl, Snow Flower. And they have this secret fan that they send messages back and forth on. And it just goes throughout their lives and they do have a big falling out in the end. Snow Flower dies and it's somewhat unresolved and Lilly has to try to make peace with her guilt. I liked that it presented the Chinese traditions that are confusing to me, such as foot binding. And I thought in a fairly neutral way, even though it seems very tragic when Lilly herself is getting her feet bound. And it's pretty excruciating to read about her having to walk across the floor on her feet and hear them breaking. And her sister dies from the foot binding. I would give this book, three stars."