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The story of Kinky, housekeeper to the doctor’s dear

Now all three sisters are home with their parents.

Interesting, mostly, but drags at some points with repeated descriptions of daily life.

Louisa is 17 and a veteran of foster homes.
Her best person Fish has just died. In a desperate act she runs into a world famous artist. The artist recognizes her as “one of us” he tells his best person, Ted. And as they share their stories, a reluctant bond forms.

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.