A Thousand Threads

A common-born woman with ambition vs. a cool, detached nobleman devoted to Buddhism How many identities must a woman take on before she can become herself? She is the daughter of a village schoolteacher, yet she still hopes to accomplish something. She is a temporary guest who has strayed into a grand residence, yet is forced into its domestic power struggles. She is a tutor to the women of a prince’s household, earning their respect but still constrained by her birth. She is his wife. That, unexpectedly, is the easiest thing she has ever done.