“my dear friend gave me this book to read in 1989 or so -way before "Memoir of a Geisha" was around and it is so much better. Liza Dalby was at the time she wrote the book the only western white woman to ever be actually trained as a geisha. The book is a sort of anthropological thesis for her, which isn't to say it's dry 'cause it ain't. She really grew to love and admire the community and it shows. I haven't read it in years. Think I should again.”

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