5/21/2023 0 Comments The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery![]() ![]() Aurelia, by circumstance, finds herself in Japan and then by will decides to leave her cloistered life (literally-she is brought over by a missionary uncle) and accidentally ends up in a teahouse. ![]() Unlike Golden’s fictionalised memoir, written in the first person from the viewpoint of a geisha, Avery chooses a French (via New York) girl as her narrator. Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha*, though drawn from interviews with geishas, had an icky veneer of oriental fetishisation throughout that has made me cautious about investing in a similarly positioned book.įirstly, I’d like to congratulate Ellis Avery on treading a fine line with such care. Obviously price wasn’t an issue I was simply wary of the ‘white author writing about Japan’ situation. I picked up this book secondhand during the Garage Sale Trail. Surprisingly, it occurs at a climactic moment-so it really is a kind of spoiler-but it doesn’t take away from the impact of the event. ![]() Spoiler alert: This book features a fire in a teahouse. ![]()
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