5/19/2023 0 Comments The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery![]() ![]() So Aurelie goes to the nearby shrine and prays for another life. Ah, how nasty!īut wait, it's not going to be that bad, is it? After all, it's Japan, the land of dreams. Meanwhile the mother dies of tuberculosis, and when Aurelie lands in Japan, she is unpleasantly surprised by the priests' contempt for Japan, and then by her uncle's clearly pedophiliac tendencies. Then the uncle gets assigned to a mission in Kyoto and takes nine-year-old Aurelie with him, having made her learn Japanese from books (it's 1866, mind). The mother despises the nuns and laughs at her brother's airs and graces. Born in 1857, she's never known her father, and her mother was taken in by her priest brother (Aurelie's uncle), and placed in a New York school run by nuns, as a servant. The character, a French/American girl named Aurelie, wants the readers to believe that she's had a miserable childhood. ![]() This one is a strangely unpleasant book, whose sycophantic nature is symbolized by the main character's life story. Oh, I have no luck with my reads recently. ![]()
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