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Barcode31234002501854
Circ StatusAvailable
LibraryChippewa
TitleThe manor of dreams : a novel / Christina Li.
AuthorLi, Christina, author.
Call NoFic Li
CollectionFiction
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Fic Li AvailableChippewaFiction   312340025018542025

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International Standard Book Number 9781668051726
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6
Personal Name Li, Christina, author.
Title Statement The manor of dreams : a novel / Christina Li.
Edition Statement First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Imprint New York : Avid Reader Press, 2025.
Summary, Etc. Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in Christina Li's haunting novel about the secrets that lie in wait in the crumbling mansion of a former Hollywood starlet, and the intertwined fates of the two Chinese American families fighting to inherit it. They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But silence can be deadly. Vivian Yin is dead. The first Chinese actress to win an Oscar, the trailblazing inge´nue rose to fame in the eighties, only to disappear from the spotlight at the height of her career and live out the rest of her life as a recluse. Now her remaining family members are gathered for the reading of her will and her daughters expect to inherit their childhood home: Vivian's sprawling, Southern California garden estate. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead--one that has suddenly returned after decades of estrangement. In hopes of staking their claim, both families move into the mansion. Amidst the grief and paranoia of this unhappy reunion, Vivian's daughters race to piece together what happened in the last weeks of their mother's life, only to realize they are being haunted by something much more sinister and vengeful than their regrets. After so many years of silence, will the families finally confront the painful truth about the last fateful summer they spent in the house, or will they cling to their secrets until it's too late? Told in dual timelines, spanning three generations, and brimming with forbidden romance, betrayal, ambition and sacrifice, The Manor of Dreams is a thrilling family gothic that examines the true cost of the American dream--and what happens when the roots we set down in this country turn to rot."
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Gothic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.