Book guide
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
A secret language binds two girls in nineteenth-century China—and preserves a friendship shaped by joy and betrayal.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
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About Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lily and Snow Flower are paired as laotong, lifelong “old same” companions, in rural nineteenth-century China. Through nu shu, a private women’s script, they share their lives as marriage, duty, footbinding, and misunderstanding reshape their bond.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Content warnings
- foot binding
- child abuse
- physical abuse
- domestic abuse
- misogyny
- pregnancy
- miscarriage
- child death
- suicide
- animal death
- war
- pandemic
- infertility
- sexual violence
- emotional abuse
- grief
- death of parent
- medical trauma
