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author of Thinking Hats & Colored Turbans

The Seat of the Soul describes the remarkable journey to the spirit that each of us is on

her doppelgänger whom she meets in the Middle East

Asne Seierstad spent four months living with a bookseller and his family in Kabul

The Great Wall of China

The Joy Luck Club new-arrivals-280222 author of Thinking Hats &Four mothers, four daughters, four families, whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's telling the stories. In 1949, four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories, think their mothers' advice is