TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The valley of amazement SN - 9780062107312 AV - PS3570.A48 V35 2013 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New York, NY PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers KW - Courtesans KW - Fiction KW - Women KW - China KW - Mothers and daughters KW - sears KW - Mother-daughter relationship KW - Shanghai (China) KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her ER -