The Language of Threads: A Novel

Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving powerful story of Pei brought to work in the silk house as a girl grown into a quiet but determined young woman whose life is subject to cruel twists of fate including the loss of her closest friend Lin. Now in bestselling novelist Gail Tsukiyamas The Language of Threads we finally learn what happened to Pei as she leaves the silk house for Hong Kong in the 1930s arriving with a young orphan Ji Shen in her care.. Her first job in the home of a wealthy family ends in disgrace but soon Pei and Ji Shen find a new life in the home of Mrs. Finch a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had. Their idyllic life is interrupted however by war and the Japanese occupation. Pei is once again forced to make her own way struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well. In this story of hardship and survival Tsukiyama paints a portrait of women fighting the forces of war and time to make a life for themselves.