Stonewall Book Award
2008 · Fiction · Winner
About This Book
'When I was nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate. What I asked for? Any life but this one.' When Aurelia flees the fire that kills her missionary uncle and leaves her orphaned and alone in nineteenth-century Japan, she has no idea how quickly her wish will be answered. Knowing only a few words of Japanese she hides in a tea house.
