Title: The Dance of the Spirits
Author: Catherine Aerie
Genre: Historical Fiction
Spring 1951: it is the fiery zenith of the Korean War, a war that the youthful US Army lieutenant Wesley Palm and his men thought that they had won … until the Chinese swept across the Yalu River. Traveling with the million-man army bent on driving back the march of “American imperialism” is Jasmine Young, a Chinese surgeon who has volunteered herself into the war for unspoken, grave reasons. Through a chronicle of merciless battles, freezing winter, and the brutality and hypocrisy of human nature, the two will find themselves weaving through the twist and turns of fate and destiny, where an unquenchable passion, a resilient pursuit of liberty, and an inherent dignity light the darkness against the vast sky of a warring world and of nation and cultures that stand shattered and divided by the same forces that unify them.
My Review:
About The Author:
Catherine Aerie, a graduate from the University of California, Irvine with a master degree in finance. She was inspired to write “The Dance of the Spirits” while researching a family member’s role in the Korean War, deciding to revive an often neglected and overlooked setting in fiction and heighten the universality of resilient pursuit of love and liberty. Her debut novel was finished after about two years of research. She currently resides in southern California.
The Dance of the Spirits is an incredible book! Exhaustively
researched, richly descriptive and beautifully written, and a complexity of
storyline seen only in some of the finest classics. The story weaves its way
through the lives separately and together of a young Chinese doctor named Jasmine
Young and US Army Lieutenant Wesley Palm and the fateful alliance they forge against
the brutal and foul backdrop of the Korean conflict. An ugly conflict largely
and unfairly overlooked in history. The author details the gilded and then unfortunate
coming of age of the protagonist as the communist regime comes to power in her
homeland, and the harsh reality of war and government’s disregard of individual
value.
The character development is stunning, the narrative poetic
and Catherine Aerie’s astonishing command of the language is absolutely beyond
compare. This book will take a special place on my bookshelf and in my heart as
a book cherished and reread for the rest of my life. It’s that good. You will
be doing yourself a tremendous disservice to not read this masterpiece.
About The Author:
Catherine Aerie, a graduate from the University of California, Irvine with a master degree in finance. She was inspired to write “The Dance of the Spirits” while researching a family member’s role in the Korean War, deciding to revive an often neglected and overlooked setting in fiction and heighten the universality of resilient pursuit of love and liberty. Her debut novel was finished after about two years of research. She currently resides in southern California.
Website: www.catherineaerie.com
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/098969092X/?tag=bdsitelogin-20
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