![]() Nghi Vo's story of women and intrigue at the end of one empire and beginning of another reveals in flashes that what you think you see isn't all there is to see. Ugliness is couched in exquisite poetry and the ordinary is finely-drawn any object, however plain in purpose or silly in function, might be a relic of endurance and a witness to greatness. ![]() Here, the truth is delicately, tenderly fished out of darkness. This is a salt and fortune book: dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful. What details are truly small? Who says they are? Ask yourself as you read The Empress of Salt and Fortune. ![]() You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small." Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Empress of Salt and Fortune Author Nghi Vo ![]()
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