Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar Publishing, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page with the words "here's to your hall" and dated in the year of publication, The author's first book, a novel of a young woman struggling to be her own women in the complex world of an emerging modern China - but also a world where tradition remains very important. Based on her experiences living in Asia for 15 years. The first chapter of this novel won the 2005 Short Fiction Competition sponsored by ByLine Magazine. Cover photograph of the village in China which was the setting for this novel by the author. 533 pp. ISBN: 0-977208117.