the Binding Chair: or, A Visit from Foot Emancipation Society in Bloomington, MN

In poised and elegant prose, Kathryn Harrison weaves a stunning story of women, travel, and flight; of love, revenge, and fear; of the search for home and the need to escape it. Set in alluring Shanghai at the turn of the century,
The Binding Chair
intertwines the destinies of a Chinese woman determined to forget her past and a Western girl focused on the promises of the future.