Women of the Silk
A Novel

If you are just starting with Gail Tsukiyama then I recommend starting with this book. Gail Tsukiyama is Chinese/Japanese American and her books take place mostly in China/Hong Kong around the second World War. This book, "Women of the Silk", tells the story of a young girl who lives in a world wher......more

China has always fascinated me, it's culture, history and the sheer tenacity of it's people, especially those which have started from nothing. There is so much to learn and this book is yet another part of China which I had no idea about. Obviously everyone knows that China produces the best silk in......more

I read this book several years ago and remember it with fondness. It is a bittersweet story with well developed charcaters, and an engaging, not too predictable, plot. For centuries the women of China (along with females in many cultures other than ours) have lived with excruciating poverty compound......more

sometimes you read a book and then you try to describe it but have no words. i finished women of the silk by gail tuskiyama a few days ago, and i'm still struggling to write this review. i'm still definitely not over that ending. women of the silk is an absolutely underrated masterpiece; it's curren......more

This book had such potential, yet failed to deliver. It was a good book, yet it could have been better. The characters did not progress. I would have loved to get to know them better, to understand their struggles and to feel what they felt. Maybe it’s the culture and they must remain guarded in fic......more