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Novel about a mixed marriage. The heroine is a beautiful, aristocratic Japanese girl; her husband, who met her in Japan during the Occupation, is a member of a prominent Virginia family. The marriage, resented by both families, came to an end when Josui, realizing the impossibility of her situation, went back to her life as a Japanese. She entrusts her son to a woman doctor to be raised.
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1893, Malaysia. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want her to become a ghost bride for the family's only son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her...
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"Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a 'creative writing' course at the community...
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