Title: The binding chair, or, A visit from the Foot Emancipation Society
Description: 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.
Subjects: Married women, Footbinding, Fiction, Interracial marriage, Historical fiction, Domestic fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Shanghai (china), fiction, France, fiction, Marriage, fiction, Women, Social conditions, Australians
Places: Shanghai (China), Southern France