Horror

Peony in Love

by Lisa See

Young Peony, betrothed to a stranger, finds her own longings mirrored in The Peony Pavilion's poetry and becomes entrapped between life and afterlife in 17th-century China. Lisa See weaves historical detail and Chinese opera into a haunting meditation on love, duty, and the porous boundary between worlds. A lush, melancholic exploration of desire that transcends death.

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