(Volume 1)
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old boy eight years her junior. Coping with cultural differences, blossoming feelings for her new husband, and expectations from both her adoptive and birth families, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 03/27/2012
ISBN: 9780316210348
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.07w x 0.93d

Review Citations: Booklist 05/15/2012 pg. 43