TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quinn,Kate
AU  - Chang,Janie
TI  - The Phoenix crown: a novel 
SN  - 9780063304734
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Earthquakes
KW  - California
KW  - San Francisco
KW  - Antiques
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Women singers
KW  - Chinese Americans
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles."--; San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing's fallen Summer Palace. His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice
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