Books like Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
12 books with a reading profile close to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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The German Girl
history, narrative
In 1939 Berlin, twelve-year-old Hannah Rosenthal and her family board the SS St.
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The Mercies
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In 1617, a sudden storm kills every man in the remote Norwegian fishing village of Vardø.
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The Red Tent
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Dinah, the only daughter of the biblical patriarch Jacob, narrates her life against the backdrop of ancient Mesopotamia and Canaan.
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The Mad Women's Ball
by Victoria Mas
history, narrative
Set in 1885 at the Salpêtrière asylum in Paris, the narrative follows Eugénie Cléry, a young woman committed to the institution by her father after she reveals her ability to speak with spirits.
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Yellow Wife
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Born into a life of relative privilege on a Virginia plantation, Pheby Delores Brown is promised her freedom at age eighteen.
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Dominicana
by Angie Cruz
history, narrative
Ana Cancion is fifteen when she marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican Republic in 1965, so that her family can eventually emigrate.
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The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
In the small town of Mallard, Louisiana, the light-skinned Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, grow up in a community that prizes fair complexions.
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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
Rahima is a girl in Kabul whose father is addicted to opium, and whose family is desperate for money.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
by Dai Sijie
history, narrative
Set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the narrative follows two city-bred teenagers, Luo and the unnamed narrator, who are sent to a remote mountain village for forced Maoist re-education.
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A Northern Light
history, narrative
Set in 1906 in the Adirondack Mountains, the story follows Mattie Gokey, a farm girl torn between a university scholarship and her obligations to her widowed father and siblings.
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A Piece of the World
history, narrative
Set in the coastal town of Cushing, Maine, this novel imagines the life of Christina Olson, the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting Christina’s World.
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Milkweed
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
A boy with no name, who is later called Misha Pilsudski, lives on the streets of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation.
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