Masquerade Binding:Paperback revered for her beauty and

revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak

"A tremendously gifted writer whose highly personal voice should excite us in much the same way that Raymond Carver's or Jeffrey Eugenides's voice did when we first heard it

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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A Chicago Public Library Best Book

Masquerade Binding:Paperback revered for her beauty andNewly single Meadow Liu is house sitting for his friend, artist Selma Shimizu, when he stumbles upon The Masquerade, a translated novel about a masked ball in 1930s Shanghai. The author's name is the same as Meadow's own in Chinese, Liu Tian a coincidence that proves to be the first of many strange happenings. Over the course of a single summer, Meadow must contend with a possibly haunted apartment, a mirror that plays tricks, a stranger speaking in