Confessions of Madame Psyche: Memoirs and Letters of Mei-Li Murrow
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: The Feminist Press
Published: May 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9781558611863
Subjects: Feminism; Modern fiction; Popular American Fiction; Fiction - Historical; American English; Fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / General
Description: Mei-li Murrow, the illegitimate daughter of a Chinese prostitute and a white confidence man, is recreated as the medium "Madame Psyche" after she accidentally predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

Although she wins fame and fortune as a medium, Mei-li seeks a truer spirituality, and embarks on a pilgrimage that takes her to the death-soaked Europe of the First World War, to a utopian commune in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the 1920s, to Depression-era migrant work camps and cannery strikes, and finally to the Napa State Hospital, where she finds wisdom and peace among the outcasts of the asylum.