![]() ![]() CC’s remarkable journey reminds readers that though time moves on, art and love endure. This stunning fantasy adventure novel, inspired by China’s most famous painting, Along the River at the Qing Ming Festival, tells the story of a friendship both tender and bold. ![]() As the relationship between these two young people deepens, the transforming power of art and romantic love comes into conflict with the immovable rules of Chinese society. Thus begins CC’s emotional journey back to a privileged life lived eight hundred years ago during the Song dynasty.ĬC is the daughter of a wealthy and influential man, but she finds herself drawn to a poor orphan boy with a startling ability to capture the beauty of the natural world. As she drifts in and out of consciousness, she is haunted by vivid dreams that seem strange-yet somehow familiar. Unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.īestselling Chinese American author Adeline Yen Mah weaves her authentic accounts of life in China into an absorbing novel about a Chinese girl and her vision of a previous life.Īfter a fall, CC is whisked away to a hospital. Especially when the two loves of his life end up being one in the same. Daniel soon realizes the way he pretended to feel about Cinderella and the way he really feels about Six may not be so different after all. One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales. ![]() When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe. A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. ![]()
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