Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is about a girl named Lily who shocking has a laotong which is a friendship between to women that last forever. Both girls share their secrets by writing in nu shu a language that only women know by using silk fans and handkerchiefs to use. As time goes by the girls learn about each other threw childhood, teenage years, marriage years and even as parents. When the years pass and as the women learn more and more about each other some event and misunderstanding come to threaten their friendship and love apart.
Opinion
I personally loved this book. I loved the main character and her best friend Snow Flower. This book really shows what true friendship is. It truly shows that women can have lasting friendships. Even when Lily finds out the lies about Snow Flower she still accepts her for who she and will stand against whoever is in her way that can threaten her friendship with Snow Flower. Through out the book it made me realize how I'm so appreciative of place and time I live in. In the book all the women said that 'they were worthless' and 'that they show their worth by all the sons they give birth too.' It just surprised me how low women were treated. Overall I truly loved this book, it definitely shows a friendship. Even when they friends didn't speak for years when one of them was truly in need they made amends in a second. All along even in fights their friendship was both the most important thing for them. I hope that I will or keep a friendship as dear as Lilys and Snow Flowers. This book is probably only girls taste. So to the girls if you want to read a good book about a true friendship this is defiantly a great read!
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