Gail Tsukiyama is the New York Times-bestselling novelist of seven novels, including The Samurai’s Garden, Women of the Silk, Night of Many Dreams, The Language of Threads, The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, Dreaming Water, and A Hundred Flowers. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. And Michael Chabon has called her “a writer of astonishing grace, delicacy, and feeling.”