The Lotus Shoes, Jane Yang
The Lotus Shoes, Jane Yang
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The Lotus Shoes

Author: Jane Yang

Narrator: Catherine Ho, Katharine Chin

Unabridged: 12 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2025

Synopsis


"Brilliantly written, masterful storytelling, and hard to put down. This story will stay with me for a very, very long time." —Heather Morris, #1 bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

An empowering, uplifting tale of two women from opposite sides of society, and their extraordinary journey of sisterhood, betrayal, love and triumph.

1800s China. Tightly bound feet, or "golden lilies," are the mark of an honorable woman, eclipsing beauty, a rich dowry and even bloodline in the marriage stakes. When Little Flower is sold as a maidservant—a muizai—to Linjing, a daughter of the prominent Fong family, she clings to the hope that one day her golden lilies will lead her out of slavery.

Not only does Little Flower have bound feet, uncommon for a muizai, but she is extraordinarily gifted at embroidery, a skill associated with the highest class of a lady. Resentful of her talents, Linjing does everything in her power to thwart Little Flower's escape.

But when scandal strikes the Fongs, both women are cast out to the Celibate Sisterhood, where Little Flower’s artistic prowess catches the eye of a nobleman. His attention threatens not only her improved status, but her life—the Sisterhood punishes disobedience with death. And if Linjing finds out, will she sabotage Little Flower to reclaim her power, or will she protect her? 

About Jane Yang

Jane Yang was born in the Chineseenclave of Saigon and raised in Australia where she grew up on a diet of superstitionand family stories from Old China. Despite establishing a scientific career,first as a pharmacist and later in clinical research, she is still sometimestorn between modern, rational thinking and the pull of old beliefs in talespassed down through the family. She lives in Australia with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christy on December 03, 2024

'You are low-born, I'm a lady. These facts are as solid as the ground we stand on'. Little Flower may have been sold as a muizai into the Fong household but she knows her worth. Not only did her mother tell her, before leaving her, she took care to bind Little Flower's feet from the age of four to en......more

Goodreads review by Annette on November 01, 2024

Set in 1800s China, Little Flower is sold into slavery to a wealthy family of Fong. The father of the Fong family arranges a marriage for his daughter Linjing. The father chooses a progressive family who doesn’t want a bride with bound feet. This creates jealousy as Little Flower has bound feet as h......more

Goodreads review by Soraya on April 24, 2024

This book was just incredible. An intricately woven story about two women from vastly different backgrounds, which transported me to a time and culture I knew nothing about. I knew from the very first page that I was going to love it. I remember years ago reading Memoirs of a Geisha and being absolu......more

Goodreads review by Clarissa on March 28, 2025

The Lotus Shoes is a tale of perseverance in the face of China's misogynist class system that makes upward mobility a near impossibility. It's a fast paced historical fiction that is both heart rending and hopeful at once. In the Lotus Shoes Little Flower is sold into slavery to Linjings family as t......more

Goodreads review by DianaRose on March 19, 2025

firstly, thank you to the publisher for an arc and an alc. i would have rated this much higher, but linjing’s jealousy and hatred towards little flower the entire story got old really fast. as for the narrators, they both did a fine job!......more

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