Product Description
The Japanese tea ceremony, steeped in ritual, is at the heart of this story of an American girl, adopted by Kyoto’s most important tea master and raised as attendant and surrogate younger sister to his privileged daughter Yukako. Pasts shrouded in secrets and mysterious traditions rocked by modernization make The Teahouse Fire a compelling and provocative story, lush in details and epic in scope.
Reviews/Praise
“Caruso's captivating, rich voice perfectly mirrors the stately prose, brings life to all the characters, male and female, and shepherds listeners peacefully through all the complexities of decades of names, places, time and plot.”
—
Kliatt
Author Bio
ELLIS AVERY teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in
The Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, Kyoto Journal, LIT, and the
Pacific Reader, as well as onstage at New York's Expanded Arts Theater. She studied Japanese tea ceremony for five years in New York and Kyoto. She lives in New York City.
