Readers of Japundit will remember my rapturous review of Ellis Avery’s delightful novel, The Teahouse Fire.

Avery is also an artist and bestows upon us a beautiful world of embroidered silks, glazes, good posture, grammar lessons and even a socially uppity geisha or two. There’s plenty here for lovers of Japanese aesthetics to feast upon.

Nearly a year after the hardback was published, the paperback is due to come out. Numerous online retailers and your local independent bookstore for a copy. You might even consider it as a stocking stuffer for the Japanophile in your life.