In a sequel to Women of the Silk, Pei leaves for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care.
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..
Pei is once again forced to make her own way, struggling to survive and to keep her extended family alive as well.
Their idyllic life is interrupted, however, by war, and the Japanese occupation.
Finch, a British ex-patriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had.
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.
Now, in bestselling novelist Gail Tsukiyama\'s 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.
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.
Finch, a British expatriate who welcomes them as the daughters she never had, Pei finds herself once more struggling during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
Finding a new life with Mrs.
In a sequel to Women of the Silk, Pei leaves for Hong Kong in the 1930s, arriving with a young orphan, Ji Shen, in her care
