Lisa See Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-see/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:43:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Lisa See Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/lisa-see/ 32 32 38398750 Daughters of the Sun and Moon https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:27:21 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19839 Three young Chinese women find themselves brought together in the earliest days of the city we know as Los Angeles. Petal, Moon, and Dove are the central characters in Lisa See’s Daughters of the Sun and Moon. In 1870, Dove arrives as the second wife of an older Chinese merchant, while Petal’s desperate family has sold […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2026/10/daughters-of-the-sun-and-moon/feed/ 0 19839 Lady Tan’s Circle of Women https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/lady-tans-circle-of-women/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/lady-tans-circle-of-women/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:39:02 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17619 Lisa See’s depictions of the women of China and Southeast Asia have always been entertaining and educational reading so I was pleased to hear about her new novel, Lady Tan’s Circle of Women. Set in 15th century China it’s the story of one of China’s first female doctors. Yunxian Tan is a little girl when, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/06/lady-tans-circle-of-women/feed/ 0 17619 Mothers’ Week: The Island of Sea Women https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-the-island-of-sea-women/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-the-island-of-sea-women/#comments Mon, 06 May 2019 07:41:36 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12403 This coming Sunday is Mother’s Day so this week my reviews are focused on three books with very different perspectives on motherhood. Each offered something important in its own way and reminded me how, like so much of what women do, it is impossible to fit the role of mother into one finite slot.   […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-the-island-of-sea-women/feed/ 2 12403 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/04/the-tea-girl-of-hummingbird-lane/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2017 07:08:21 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8569   I have always enjoyed Lisa See’s novels for their intimate portrayals of women in China at various points in its history. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane is her latest and, once again, See brings to life the stories about people and places about which I knew nothing. The novel is set in the […]

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