Title: The Teahouse Fire
Description: The story of two women whose lives intersect in late nineteenth century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West. Told through the enchanting and unforgettable voice of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by proprietors of a tea ceremony school, this is "a magisterial novel that is equal parts love story, imaginative history and bildungsroman, a story as alluring as it is powerful" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Subjects: Social life and customs, Literature, Fiction, Japanese tea ceremony, Americans, Japan, fiction, Fiction, general, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda  Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Manners and customs, Fiction, sagas, Young women, fiction, collection:barbara_gittings_literature_award=winner
Places: Japan, Kyoto (Japan), Kyoto
Time periods: 19th century