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Gail Tsukiyama


Born
San Francisco, The United States
Genre
Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction


Born to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in San Francisco, Gail Tsukiyama now lives in El Cerrito, California. Her novels include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), and The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007). ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 81,220 ratings · 8,087 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors
The Samurai's Garden
4.16 avg rating — 29,138 ratings — published 1995 — 34 editions
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Women of the Silk (Women of...
3.95 avg rating — 17,334 ratings — published 1991 — 20 editions
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The Street of a Thousand Bl...
3.98 avg rating — 10,901 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
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The Language of Threads (Wo...
4.12 avg rating — 7,726 ratings — published 1999 — 23 editions
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The Color of Air
3.82 avg rating — 4,776 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions
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A Hundred Flowers
3.78 avg rating — 4,348 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions
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Night of Many Dreams
3.78 avg rating — 2,919 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions
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Dreaming Water
3.81 avg rating — 2,469 ratings — published 2002 — 18 editions
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The Brightest Star
3.48 avg rating — 1,592 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions
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Series by Gail Tsukiyama

Women of the Silk The Language of Threads
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“Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, The Samurai's Garden
tags: memory, moving-on
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“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water
tags: children, family, love, mothers
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“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
tags: destination, destiny, goals, life, patience, snail, waiting
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