TY - SOUND AU - Tan,Amy AU - Wu,Nancy AU - Bean,Joyce TI - The valley of amazement T2 - Brilliance Audio on compact disc SN - 9781423322399 PY - 2013/// CY - Grand Haven, Michigan PB - Brilliance Audio KW - Courtesans KW - Fiction KW - Women KW - China KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Shanghai (China) KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Historical fiction KW - gsafd KW - Audiobooks KW - lcgft N1 - Directors, Stephen Helderman, Paul Costanzo; Narrated by Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean, and Amy Tan N2 - Violet is one of the most celebrated courtesans in Shanghai, a beautiful and intelligent woman who has honed her ability to become any man's fantasy since her start as a 'Virgin Courtesan' at the age of twelve. Half-Chinese and half-American, she moves effortlessly between the East and the West. But her talents belie her private struggle to understand who she really is and her search for a home in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the choices she has made and the men who have shaped her ER -