AUTHOR CHAT with Lisa See - Lady Tan's Circle of Women
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- 💗 Join me and @nytimes bestselling author Lisa See to discuss a captivating story of women helping other women.
💬 Come see why Bookpage raves “Lisa See’s spellbinding historical novel, inspired by Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor by the real-life Tan Yunxian, vividly depicts 15th-century China with artfully woven details, rich characters & descriptive language. See captures a world of propriety & cruelty as she ruminates on the disparity between the lives of men and women, & how women-no matter their class-are treated as possessions of the men around them. But through her strong-willed characters, See also emphasizes how women can act as the anchors of society…an emotional & illuminating epic.”
📹 LMK if you are interested so I can get you the info to join. Bring your :question: because @lisasee_writer will be answering them live.
🪷From a young age, Yunxian learns about women’s illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship & a mutual purpose-despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it-& they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other’s joys & struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom.
⛲️ But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling & from helping the women & girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife-embroider bound-foot slippers, pluck instruments, recite poetry, give birth to sons, & stay forever within the walls of the family compound.
:medical_symbol:How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions, go on to treat women & girls from every level of society, & lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts?
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Thank you for this author chat! Really loved the chance to hear from Lisa See and discuss deeper context within Lady Tan and the characters!
And your question was phenomenal. I hope you can join us for another live chat in 2024. Have you read any other books from previous author chats? Would love to know what you think!
I absolutely loved this book. Lisa See is such a great author. I am enjoying the interview. Lisa See has a real fun personality.
Isn’t she amazing!?! I could have talked with her all night! So glad you found another author chat from a book you’ve already read!
Thank you so much for posting this interview. I watched several interviews with Lisa See re Lady Tan in preparation for our small local book group discussion. Yours was the freshest and most interesting. ❤
Thank you so much for your feedback. I know y’all will have great discussions. Please feel free to share this link and your group should definitely join us on an upcoming live author chat.
This was my FAVORITE book of 2023. It was brilliant! ❤. I cant stop recommending it….
So agree! I hope you enjoyed hearing from Lisa. Loved being inside her brain to see her process. I found it fascinating.
Thank you - it was lovely ❤