Amazon's Best Books of April 2022, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Chautauqua National Award finalist, Carnegie Medal longlist, A Goodreads Choice Award nominee. A fast-paced, polished novel that explores a challenging period in American history in the late 1800s and early 1800s. XX century, associated with the circumstances of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Daiyu lost everything: her parents disappeared, and she was kidnapped and taken from China to America, to a country gripped by anti-Chinese sentiment, full of cruelty and despair. She is followed by a train of tragic fate of the legendary heroine, after whom she was named. But who is Daiyu herself and what does she have besides the hieroglyphs of her name?.. From the calligraphy school to the brothel in San Francisco and the mountains of Idaho, every next step has become a test, every person a potential threat. From now on, Daiyu is forced to pretend to be other people and reinvent herself in order to survive and finally find her true self.