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Did not finish due to explicit and repeated descriptions of child sexual abuse

This book grabbed my currently frazzled attention from the first chapter. I like the main character, Zaxony, and his values and actions.

This is tiring. There’s A LOT of existential mulling over their life choices, especially in Elle’s storyline.

Yunxian’s story begins as an 8-year old girl learning from her mother, “Respected Lady” about how to behave in the future as a wife, daughter-in-law, and
mother. She has just begun the process of foot binding when her mother dies of a terrible infection caused by her own binding.

A bit slow for the first 25 % with some depressing overtones, not to mention an unbelievable murder suicide scenario that brings two kids into sixty-something year old P.J.’s life. But once that happens things start to pick up.