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Women of the Silk

By: Gail Tsukiyama
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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In Women of the Silk, Gail Tsukiyama takes listeners back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amid the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk.

Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of their ambition, dreams, and friendship to achieve the freedom they could never have hoped for on their own.

Tsukiyama's graceful prose weaves the details of "the silk work" and Chinese village life into a story of courage and strength.

©1991 Gail Tsukiyama (P)2019 Tantor
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"Enlivened with an engrossing richness of detail...succinct and delicate." (New York Times Book Review)

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Another beautiful historical fiction!

It highlights the decisions made during times of hardships. Both families and their daughters were forced to live with the consequences of whatever fell. The strength of young girls and women forced into the new environment to work and send home money is awe-inspiring and often still tragic. Yet, these women keep going. They learn to rely on each other and form a new family - one stronger than the ties of blood.

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Sisterhood Many Forms

Life in the silk factories made way for connections and relationships by choice or fate.

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The Bad Old Days

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Women's stories in 1930s China - never a happy time or environment for females.

Narration by Emily Woo Zeller is good.

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