Re: [LM_NET] BOOK: Bound by Napoli and a summer read for us...Snow Flower...

[Barb Engvall <macbarb@CHARTER.NET>]

Thanks for this review...being elementary I sometimes miss some of  
these great books. This one sounds fascinating...along the more adult  
lines if you haven't read Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See  
put that on your remaining must read list for the summer...

Barb
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On Jul 31, 2006, at 10:46 AM, Frederick Muller wrote:

> Napoli, Donna Jo. Bound. Atheneum, 2004 [0-689-86175-3
>   It is ancient China and Xing Xing's parents have died so she is  
> bound to her stepmother.  They live together in a cave with her  
> step sister, Wei Ping who is suffering through the agony of having  
> her feet bound.  The story tells the horrors of what it was like to  
> suffer through having your feet bound to make them small (and  
> beautiful.)  Xing Xing does the chores and fetches the water daily  
> for her "family" who treat her like a servant.  One day she finds a  
> dress and pair of golden shoes hidden by her mother before shoe  
> died.  When Wei Ping and stepmother go off to the festival, Xing  
> Xing puts on the dress and shoes and follows.  Of course, by now  
> you realize that is another of Napoli's fairy tale expansions.   
> Just like in Cinderella, Xing Xing rushes home and loses a shoe and  
> the local prince decides to marry whoever the shoe fits.  In this  
> 186 page book, like Napoli's others, you get wrapped up in the  
> story before you realize it is a retelling of a fairy tale.  China is
>  one of the many cultures that have a Cinderella type story in  
> their folklore.  This book is good on many fronts, especially the  
> depiction of what it must have been like to have your feet bound.
>
>
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