TY - BOOK AU - Tan,Amy TI - The valley of amazement SN - 9780062107312 AV - PS3570.A48 V35 2013 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2013/// KW - Americans KW - China KW - Fiction KW - Art KW - Courtesans KW - Family secrets KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Kidnapping KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Shanghai (China) KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Shanghai, 1912. 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 -