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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Review by Mrs. Dettling

An Abe Lincoln Award nominee for 2008.

Lisa See’s novel set in nineteenth-century China, is a beautiful and heartbreaking story of love and friendship. Lily and Snow Flower live in a remote area of the Hunan Province. At the age of seven, the two girls are paired in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. Snow Flower introduces Lily to the secret language of nu shu, a language developed by Chinese women more than a thousand years ago to keep their thoughts free from the influence of men. According to author Lisa See, nu shu “appears to be the only written language in the world to have been created by women exclusively for their own use.”