The House of the Misty Star
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A bronze lantern above Ursula Priscilla Jenkins's door guides sailors home through the mist off Japan's Inland Sea. After thirty years teaching in Hijiyama, she has grown used to a quiet life and a house that offers shelter to all sorts of visitors. That routine changes when a student's letter sends her to help Jane Gray, an American missionary living in a dangerous district with too little food.
Frances Little tells this novel through Miss Jenkins's candid, often amused voice. Her concern for Jane opens into a wider account of friendship, religious differences and the wish for personal freedom. In a city preparing for a temple festival, Jenkins also tries to understand Zura, a young woman resisting the demands of a conservative household. Garden views, lanterns, ceremonial dress and sharp exchanges place these tensions in everyday scenes.
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- Author
- Frances Little
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 133
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction Books
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