"A magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful."
"Saturated with color and detail manages to make nineteenth-century Japan both accessible and exotic, infusing her story with a sense of dignified calm.
She shares every subtlety of the ancient art.Attention to detail is admirable.Urako is a compelling character." "Ellis Avery studied tea ceremony for several years, so it makes sense that the ritual dominates her first novel. "Provides true pleasure to the intellect and all the senses." "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite-the tea ceremony-became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West. “Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties-each one resplendent with character and drama.
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