Alison Gee

Alison Gee is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in People, InStyle, the International Herald Tribune and Los Angeles Times. She is a former editor of Asiaweek magazine and is presently writing an India-based literary memoir, The Peacock Sings for Rain (St. Martin’s Press, 2009).


Asian Mist

No Asian culture is more steeped in the rituals and power of magic as Indonesia. In his debut novel, Indonesian-born author Erick Setiawan presents a bewitching but modern fantasy world in which two feuding families live in horribly haunted houses full of spirits and spells. Yet their lives are ruled by universal values — love, desire, loss and pain — firmly rooted in human emotions.

Dreaming India

After a narrow escape from a fatal form of cancer, New York writer Katherine Russell Rich spent a year in India learning Hindi. She had no idea just how radically the language would change her life, her mind, her very being.

Bound-Foot in China

In a remote village in southwestern China live 300 women whose feet were crushed long ago to the size of a child’s. They are the last survivors haunted by a mutilating tradition that lasted a millennium — solely for men’s pleasure.