ELLIS AVERY teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in "The Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, Kyoto Journal, LIT", and the "Pacific Reader", as well as onstage at New York's Expanded Arts Theater. She studied Japanese tea ceremony for five years in New York and Kyoto. She lives in New York City.
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The fates of two women-one American, one Japanese-become entwined in this sweeping novel of nineteenth century Japan on the cusp of radical change and westernization. The Japanese tea ceremony, steeped in ritual, is at the heart of this story of an Ameri... SEE MORE