The Teahouse Fire

By Ellis Avery

Subjects: Japan, fiction, Literature, Lambda Literary Awards, Fiction, general, Fiction, sagas, Manners and customs, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Japanese tea ceremony, Young women, fiction, Fiction, Social life and customs, Stonewall Book Awards, Americans, LGBTQ novels

Description: The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Told through the enchanting and unforgettable voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this is "a magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).