I have just finished reading ‘Petals from the Sky’ by Mingmei Yip.  This is an author I have never heard of, so I was so pleased to discover such a lovely book.

This is about a Chinese woman who has struggled her whole life trying to decide whether to live in the human world of “Ten Thousand Miles of Red Dust” or to go into the monestary and become a Buddhist nun. It is a lovely, lovely book. Full of Chinese art, Buddhist philosophy and very human struggles and desires. Kuan Yin is the Bohdisattva that guides our protaganist throughout her journey of self discovery. I was reading this book in a room full of Kaun Yins and felt truly at peace to be surrounded by so much beauty.

I loved this book and didn’t want it to end. I will look for her first novel Peach Blossom Pavilion.