Peony in love
by Lisa See

In seventeenth-century China, three women become emotionally involved with The Peony Pavilion, a famed opera rumored to cause lovesickness and even death, including Peony, the cloistered daughter of a wealthy scholar, who succumbs to its spell only to return after her death as a "hungry ghost" to haunt her former fiancé, who has married another.

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Not A Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland is the Silicon Valley Reads selection for 2009.

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The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell was the Silicon Valley Reads selection for 2008.

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